A GERMAN MASSIVE SILVER-GILT FLAGON

MARK OF JACOB BECKHAUSEN, DANZIG, CIRCA 1680

Details

A GERMAN MASSIVE SILVER-GILT FLAGON
MARK OF JACOB BECKHAUSEN, DANZIG, CIRCA 1680
Cylindrical and on high domed foot, the foot and sides each with panels of matting between reeded ribs, the scroll handle applied with beading, chased with foliage and applied with a coat-of-arms below a coronet, with grotesque mask spout, the hinged cover similarly matted and with baluster finial and foliage thumb-piece, later engraved with a cypher, marked on foot near handle, rim and cover
21 in. (53.4 cm.) high
183 oz. 10 dwt. (5,707 gr.)
The cypher is that of Gregory de Ligne Gregory (d.1854) of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire.

Provenance

Gregory de Ligne Gregory (1786-1854) of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, by bequest to
Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory 3rd Bt. (1806-1875) and then by descent.

Literature

Inventory of articles (heirlooms, including library and works of art) at Harlaxton New Manor House, 1864-66, National Archives, Kew, Ms. J 90/1217, p. 56, no. 1, ‘Plate and Silver Gilt’:
No. 1, ‘A Large Silver Gilt tankard – 183 oz. 17 dwt.’

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Lot Essay

It is interesting to note that another example of the same size is recorded in the collection of Baron Karl v. Rothschild, Frankfurt, 1885, (M. Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, vol. II, p. 10, no. 1571).

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