Tankard
Decoration: smooth coat of arms (handle), cartilage masks, putti with twisted cloths, flower tendrils with insects, fruit bundles, figure of a naked boy sitting on a baluster knob with cap and torch (personification of a miner). On the ground hallmark and master mark, Austrian postage stamp for older silver works 1809/10, engraved "4" and tremulier line. Austrian repunciation at the edge of the lid for older silverwork (not perfectly visible).
1610/1615 Veit Koch, Breslau; without date / 1933-12-04 Princely Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Collection [1]; 1933-12-04 Auction Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt am Main [2]; 1933-12-04 / without date / unknown owner, acquired at the auction Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt am Main, 4 December 1933; without date / 1939 Jewish owner (unknown); 1939 / 1939-05 Städtische Darlehensanstalt, Frankfurt am Main, acquired by Jewish owner (unknown) in the course of compulsory surrender of precious metals for Jews; since 1939-05 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Frankfurt am Main (Museum Angewandte Kunst), purchase by the city of Frankfurt am Main, Ju. 197, acquired by the Städtische Darlehensanstalt, Frankfurt am Main [3]. Hefner-Alteneck 1866, p. 40, p. 56; Rosenberg 1922, Lf.No. 1366, p. 280 and Lf.No. 1406, hallmark 1366b, p. 286; Rosenberg 1928, Lf.No. 7884, p. 435; Städel Art Institute 1928, p. 51, no. 462, [2] AAT.-Cat. Hugo Helbing, 4 December 1933, cat. 38, cat. No. 104, Plate XIV, [3] Inventory book Bd. 5.
Literatur zur Provenienz: Hefner-Alteneck, Heinrich von: Kunst-Kammer seiner Koeniglichen Hoheit des Fürsten Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. München: Friedrich Bruckmanns Verlag 1866
Rosenberg, Marc: Die Goldschmiede-Merkzeichen, Bd. 1, Deutschland A-C (R³). Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt 1922
Rosenberg, Marc: Die Goldschmiede-Merkzeichen, Teil: Bd. 4 (R³). Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt 1928
Kurzes Verzeichnis der im Staedelschen Kunstinstitut ausgestellten Sigmaringer Sammlung, Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main 1928
Helbing, Hugo: Aus Beständen der alten Fürstlich Hohenzollernschen Sammlung Sigmaringen, 4. Dezember 1933 (Katalog 38). Frankfurt am Main: Hauserpresse.
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