Lot 56
56
A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED ETCHED GLASS DECANTERS OR FLASKS
A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED ETCHED GLASS DECANTERS OR FLASKS

MARK OF NICOLAUS HIERONYMUS HÖFLER, NUREMBERG, 1715-1733

Details
A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED ETCHED GLASS DECANTERS OR FLASKS
MARK OF NICOLAUS HIERONYMUS HÖFLER, NUREMBERG, 1715-1733
Each of baluster-form, the glass bodies etched with ribbon-tied bird and fruit swags, the lobed base mounts chased with strapwork on a matted ground, the neck mounts pricked with interlaced straps on a matted ground, the hinged domed lobed covers with conforming chased decoration and with ball finials, under side of base mounts and flange of covers with maker's mark and town mark
11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, 18 January 1980.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 48, pp. 202-203.

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Lot Essay

Nuremburg goldsmith Nicolaus Hieronymus Höfler (1660-1738) trained as an apprentice under his father Johann Philipp Höfler before becoming a master in 1682 (K. Tebbe, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868, Nuremberg, 2007, no. 367, pp. 177-178). Höfler served as Ratsherr des Handwerks, the highest office available in the goldsmith trade at the time, from 1724 until his death in 1738. Another clear cut-glass bottle with silver mounts, mark of Elias Adam, Augsburg, circa 1710, was sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 4 April 2007, lot 643.

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