Simon Lang (1608-1671, master 1645), Nuremberg, around 1660
Silver, engraved and partially gilded, Nuremberg hallmark around 1660, master's mark SL.
The large shell-shaped goblet with fanned tongue is supported by a shaft in the shape of the goddess of victory Fortuna with a palm of victory, and a wreath on an oval, upward curved, and humped foot. A small putto, also standing on a sphere with a palm and a victory wreath, crowns the shell goblet, which is elaborately engraved on the outside with tulip, carnation, and rose blossoms.
Several almost identical examples of this model by the same master have been preserved: for example, in the collection of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, in the possession of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and one half this size in the Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt. It is likely that this model was created in connection with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Height: 41 cm Weight: 515 g
cf.: “Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg” vol. 1, part 2, in the Cologne City Museum, No. 646
CC BY-NC-SA @ Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt
Karin Tebbe, “Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst - Formtypen und stilistische Entwicklung”, within: “Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst”: 1541-1868, 2 vols, Nürnberg 2007, vol. II, p. 183 f.
