A SUPERB GERMAN RENAISSANCE SILVER-GILT CUP FORMED AS A BEAR
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A SUPERB GERMAN RENAISSANCE SILVER-GILT CUP FORMED AS A BEAR

MARK OF VALENTIN I HUETTER, AUGSBURG, 1560-1570

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A SUPERB GERMAN RENAISSANCE SILVER-GILT CUP FORMED AS A BEAR
MARK OF VALENTIN I HUETTER, AUGSBURG, 1560-1570
The seated bear wearing a collar of rosettes with a ring at the back, the detachable head with mouth, nose and eyes with red, white and black cold-painted enamel, holding in his paws a strapwork shield, marked under base with town mark (Seling v. III 1980, #6) and Maker's mark (Seling 578)
6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) high; 16 oz. 10 dwt. (516 gr.)
來源
Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main
Confiscated from the above by the German authorities, after 1938, and transferred to the city of Frankfurt (inv.no.762)
Restituted to the heirs of Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, February 29, 1949 (inv.no. 156)
J.J. Klejman, New York, February 14, 1957
Sotheby's, New York, April 16, 1997
A Private Collection, Madrid
出版
Marc Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Markzeichen, III, 1889, no. 363b.
José Manuel Cruz Valdovinos, Platería Europea en España, 1997, illus. pp. 180-181.
Helmut Seling, Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede 1529-1868, 2007, p. 69.
展覽
Ausstellung Freiherrs Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1914, no. 77

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The offering of a Willkommen Pokal, or “welcome cup,“ of wine to a guest was a long established tradition throughout Europe, and resulted by the late 16th century in the creation of imaginative animal-form drinking cups with detachable heads.  The surviving cups from this period, formed as stags, owls, horses, dogs, and other creatures, comprise some of the most attractive, amusing, and desirable objects ever made in silver or, more usually, silver-gilt.  Vessels in the form of game most likely graced the treasuries of princely hunting-lodges, while some of the animals represented those used in the coats-of-arms of a family or the symbols of a guild or corporation.  Other cups, such as the horse-form examples, may have been prizes for competitions.  Whatever their initial purpose, animal-form cups remain some of the most enchanting links with a vanished age.
 
Two bear-form cups from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, also late 16th century, were sold at Christie’s, Paris, 24 February 2009, lots 173 and 175.  Another, from the collection of Princess Salimah Aga Khan, was sold at Christie’s, Geneva, 19 May 1998, lot 179.

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