A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD

MARK OF GEORGIUS I OLESCHER, BRASSÓ, CIRCA 1700

Details

A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MARK OF GEORGIUS I OLESCHER, BRASSÓ, CIRCA 1700
Shaped cylindrical on a domed foot with stepped border, repousse and chased above with colonettes of bellflowers, cherubs, and baskets of fruit and flowers, the similarly chased cover with bifurcated scroll thumbpiece and later lion finial, scroll handle with female torso and head, marked under base
11½ in. (29 cm.) high; 32 oz. (1,006 gr.)

Provenance

Sold at auction at the Ernst Museum, Budapest, Sale no. XXXI, 1926, lot 30

Literature

László Mravik, "Sacco di Budapest:" Depredation of Hungary 1938-1949, 1998, illus. fig. 19976, p. 335

Exhibited

Exhibition of Goldsmiths' Work, Museum of Applied Art, Budapest, 1884, Rm. IV, Gc. II, No. 45
Exhibition of Old Silver, Museum of Applied Art, Budapest, 1927, no. 59
Exhibition of Old Cultural Pieces from Transylvania, Museum of Applied Art, Budapest, 1931, no. 64, Pl. IX

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Lot Essay

A nearly identical tankard, also by Georgius I Olescher, is illustrated in Judit H. Kolba, Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection, 1996, p. 95. Another similar tankard from the collection of the Museum of Applied Art, Budapest (Inv. no. 53.39), is illustrated in István Fodor et al., Baroque Splendor, The Art of the Hungarian Goldsmith, 1994, p. 113.

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