Rare, extraordinary funnel cup - Nuremberg - Heinrich Mack 1612-1626

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Christian Eduard Franke-Landwers Christoph Freiherr von Seckendorff

Description

Silver, cast, chased and engraved, with the original gilding.

Marked with Nuremberg hallmark for 1609-1629, master’s mark Heinrich Mack (1581-1626, GNM no. bz13, 545) and assay line.

A finely structured shaft, supported by three delicate volute braces, rises above the curved, hunched foot. The funnel-shaped cup opens over two rows of offset humps into an eight-sided vessel, the walls of which are engraved with ornamental festoons, fruit decorations and insects.

Height 18.5 cm, weight 182 g.

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