Beaker ca. 1676 Hungarian, Brassó Engraved letters and numerals on this beaker date the work and may one day identify its patron. They surround a stylized shield ornament with a helmet, sword, and grapes. The patron likely donated this beaker to a guild or a corporation—possibly the local civic militia company—to which he belonged. Members of equal standing within these groups would use valuable beakers to share expensive alcoholic beverages. It is rare to find snakeskin ornament applied to such a bold and substantial object. There is a mark on the underside, the initials "PM" under a crown, b
Beaker ca. 1676 Hungarian, Brassó Engraved letters and numerals on this beaker date the work and may one day identify its patron. They surround a stylized shield ornament with a helmet, sword, and grapes. The patron likely donated this beaker to a guild or a corporation—possibly the local civic militia company—to which he belonged. Members of equal standing within these groups would use valuable beakers to share expensive alcoholic beverages. It is rare to find snakeskin ornament applied to such a bold and substantial object. There is a mark on the underside, the initials "PM" under a crown, but they are not contained within a shield. To date, the master who used such a mark remains unidentified; possibly the maker did not belong to the guild, and this may also explain the rudimentary quality of the Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, Geneva, May 13, 1986, p. 35, no. H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 77, no. 55. Kolba attributes the unidentified (maker’s?) mark PM under crown of the beaker’s underside to Brassó.ExhibitedA Magyar történeti ötvösmű-kiállítás lajstroma. Exh. cat. Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum. Budapest, 1884, room 5, case 3, p. égi ezüstkiállításának leíró lajstroma. Exh. cat. edited by Károly Csányi. Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum. Museum of Applied Arts. Budapest, 1927, p. 27, no. ély régi művészeti emlékeinek kiállítása az Iparművészeti múzeumban / Ausstellung alten Kunstgewerbes aus Siebenbürgen. Exh. cat. Museum of Applied Arts. Budapest, 1931, p. 30, no. similar beaker with snakeskin decoration was sold by Dr. Fischer Kunstauktionen in Heilbronn, sale no. 161, no. 448.[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]. Beaker 237018
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