A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
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A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, 17TH CENTURY

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A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, 17TH CENTURY
Tapering cylindrical and on spreading foot, the body and hinged cover each with matted finish, with male figure finial and putto cast thumbpiece, the rim engraved' Nagy Sandor Pape', engraved inside the cover with the Madonna and child, the base set with a medallion
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
16 oz. 6 dwt. (507 gr.)
The inscriptions on the medallion translat as, 'Emperor Ferdinand II after the defeat of the rebels constructed a church to God and Saints Ignatius and Francis [Xavier], he commuted the College of the Society of Jesus erected by Ferdinand I into a professed house of that Society, united it with the famous Academy of Vienna, and extended and ornamented it with a new residence for fellowship and the muses, in the fifth year of his reign, A.D. 1624.' and 'In the name of Jesus let every knee of present Austrians bend and those to come'.
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For a near identical tankard, see Christie's London, 12 June 2002, lot 8.

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