Magnificent silver, partially gilded large Renaissance Beaker called Trumpet-Beaker

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Southern Germany, most probably the Nuremberg area 1500-1520

Height 15.3 cm, weight: 232 g

Comparative objects:

See: Kremlin, Moskow   Beaker amost identical shape, dated 1500

See: Heinrich Kohlhausen:, Nuremberg Goldsmith’s Art of the Middle Ages and the Dürer Period No. 290, page 170. This comparison object (end of the 15th century) is in the Kremlin in Moscow

See: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Volume 1, No.583 Trumpet beaker, Nuremberg 1558, Master: Caspar Bauch I, Hilpoldstein City Museum

See Bavarian National Museum, beaker without marks, South German, ca. 1520/30 from the Pringsheim collection.

Detailed information

Magnificent silver, partially gilded large Renaissance beaker/trumpet beaker. Nuremberg area, without marks

Elegant, smooth walls. The flared edge is gilded and engraved with a band of intricate foliage and flowers.