Peter Ohr I. (1647-1662), Hamburg, around 1660
Partly gilt silver, Hamburg inspection mark from 1654-1674, and master's mark Peter Ohr I.
The cylindrical body is chased with a roundelay of playing cupids in half relief, framed by a frieze of naturalistic tulip and daffodil blossoms in flat relief on the base embossment and the lid, the latter is crowned by a small male figure (wineskin and grape lost), with a handle in Mannerist style. The later engraved helmet decoration with five ostrich feathers under the lip rim.
With his high-profile goldsmith work, Ohr was one of the most important North German masters in the second half of the 17th century. One of his most important commissions, a large table fountain for Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, is now in the armory of the Moscow Kremlin.
Height: 27.5 cm, weight: 1,607 g
Cf. Erich Schliemann ed., “Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs”, 3 vols., Hamburg 1985, MZ no. 36 I, 190, no. 262.
Carl Hernmarck, “The Art of the European Silversmith” 1430-1830, 2 vols., London 1977, vol. I, p. 122.
