Two double standing cups (trussing cups) ca. 1600 Probably Simon Pissinger Like the Augsburg tankard (), this pair of cups was part of a cache of silver discovered in 1869 in the false wall of a Regensburg home. The silver had been hidden there centuries earlier, in the 1630s, by one Georg Hoffman, who feared looting during the Thirty Years War. Simon Pissinger, the silversmith who probably made this cup, was successful enough to buy a large house in Regensburg in 1599; his work (including a pair like this one) was acquired by the city council for their stock of gifts for visiting dign
Two double standing cups (trussing cups) ca. 1600 Probably Simon Pissinger Like the Augsburg tankard (), this pair of cups was part of a cache of silver discovered in 1869 in the false wall of a Regensburg home. The silver had been hidden there centuries earlier, in the 1630s, by one Georg Hoffman, who feared looting during the Thirty Years War. Simon Pissinger, the silversmith who probably made this cup, was successful enough to buy a large house in Regensburg in 1599; his work (including a pair like this one) was acquired by the city council for their stock of gifts for visiting dignitaries. Sometimes called "trussing cups" in Elizabethan English inventories, double cups were used to celebrate unions, both political and matrimonial.[Elizabeth Cleland, 2017]. Two double standing cups (trussing cups). German, Regensburg. ca. 1600. Gilded silver. Metalwork-Silver
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