Details
A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT CANISTER
maker's mark of Hans III Petrus, Augsburg, 1665-1670
Of cylindrical form with waved lower and upper rim, the body repoussé and chased with a biblical scene of Moses as an infant floating in basket on the river Nile, the Pharaoh's daughter and ladies-in-waiting stand at the river bank, depicted in a rustic landscape, the screw-off domed cover chased with a band of acanthus leaves and applied in the centre with a moulded drop-handle, the reverse inscribed "H.C.V.S:" "M.S.GV.N."
18cm. (7in.) high
(640gr.)
maker's mark of Hans III Petrus, Augsburg, 1665-1670
Of cylindrical form with waved lower and upper rim, the body repoussé and chased with a biblical scene of Moses as an infant floating in basket on the river Nile, the Pharaoh's daughter and ladies-in-waiting stand at the river bank, depicted in a rustic landscape, the screw-off domed cover chased with a band of acanthus leaves and applied in the centre with a moulded drop-handle, the reverse inscribed "H.C.V.S:" "M.S.GV.N."
18cm. (7in.) high
(640gr.)
Literature
Seling, H., Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, part I No 540, illustrated in part II.