A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD

MAKER'S MARK ONLY, CK IN A SHAPED CARTOUCHE, ALMOST CERTAINLY FOR CASPAR KREISCH I, BRASSO, CIRCA 1650

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A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MAKER'S MARK ONLY, CK IN A SHAPED CARTOUCHE, ALMOST CERTAINLY FOR CASPAR KREISCH I, BRASSO, CIRCA 1650
Cylindrical, chased with two winged angel playing a violin and a horn, a further angel singing with a book of music, within landscapes surrounded by foliage scrolls, with fruiting finial and cast mask thumbpiece, the hinged cover with later fruiting finial, marked underneath with maker's mark only
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
30 oz. 1 dwt. (935 gr.)

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Lot Essay

A mark for Caspar Kreisch I, working in Brassó, which is now Brașov in Romania, is recorded by K. Elemer in Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns, 1936, p. 37, no. 218. The present mark has slight differences to the cartouche. Amongst his other work is a tankard with female figures, which is recorded op. cit. as being in the collection of St. Bartholomew's Church, Brassó.

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