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MARK OF HEINRICH NIEDERSTADT II, PADERBORN, CIRCA 1720
Details
A RARE GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER COIN-SET LARGE WAGER CUP OR JUNGFERNBECHER
MARK OF HEINRICH NIEDERSTADT II, PADERBORN, CIRCA 1720
Formed as a maiden with detachable torso and a wide-bodied skirt holding aloft a reeded tapering cup on twin-scroll caryatid supports, the swinging upper cup inset with a Friedrich I of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg (1680-1691) 1 ½ thaler commemorating his admission into the Pegnitz-Schafer order, and other inset thalers, the lower cup inset with a further twenty-four thalers dated early 16th century to 1712, including two Paderborn ones for Archbishops Herman Werner and Franz Adolf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht, on a finely chased foliate ground, engraved to the rim with the accollé coat-of-arms, marked on rim of skirt and bowl
15 ¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high
76 oz. 9 dwt. (2392 gr.)
The arms are those of Asseburg of Prussia and Wolff Metternich zur Gracht of Prussia, Baden and Limburg for Ernst Konstantin von der Asseburg (1666-1726), Freiherr von der Asseburg-Hinnenburg and his wife Lucie Wolff Metternich (1680-1747). They were married in 1699.
MARK OF HEINRICH NIEDERSTADT II, PADERBORN, CIRCA 1720
Formed as a maiden with detachable torso and a wide-bodied skirt holding aloft a reeded tapering cup on twin-scroll caryatid supports, the swinging upper cup inset with a Friedrich I of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg (1680-1691) 1 ½ thaler commemorating his admission into the Pegnitz-Schafer order, and other inset thalers, the lower cup inset with a further twenty-four thalers dated early 16th century to 1712, including two Paderborn ones for Archbishops Herman Werner and Franz Adolf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht, on a finely chased foliate ground, engraved to the rim with the accollé coat-of-arms, marked on rim of skirt and bowl
15 ¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high
76 oz. 9 dwt. (2392 gr.)
The arms are those of Asseburg of Prussia and Wolff Metternich zur Gracht of Prussia, Baden and Limburg for Ernst Konstantin von der Asseburg (1666-1726), Freiherr von der Asseburg-Hinnenburg and his wife Lucie Wolff Metternich (1680-1747). They were married in 1699.
Provenance
From the estate of Hermann Werner Franz Gottlob von der Asseburg (1702-1779), Schloss Hinnenburg, Colonel of the Household (Lord Chamberlain) and Minister to Clemens August (1700-1761), Prince-Elect of Cologne and Archbishop of Padernborn and then by descent.
A German Nobleman; Sotheby's, London, 7 June 2005, lot 129.
Galerie Neuse, Kunsthandel, Bremen.
Acquired from the above for the present collection in December 2006.
A German Nobleman; Sotheby's, London, 7 June 2005, lot 129.
Galerie Neuse, Kunsthandel, Bremen.
Acquired from the above for the present collection in December 2006.
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