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A PINE CUP AND COVER, SILVER GILT
SURMOUNTING the cover is a figure of Charity with an infant in her left arm, her right
arm resting on a medallion portrait, which rests on cut foliage. The inverted pine-shaped
body is supported on three branches of vines with three parrots thereon and a figure of
Bacchus on a tun in the middle. Four lizards are applied on the top of the reel-shaped
base, which is worked on the top with a snail and a tortoise, a serpent and a frog, and various
insects. The hollow sides of the base are fluted, while the border is decorated with three oval
strap-work panels containing a snail in one, an insect in the second and a tortoise in the third,
which are separated by conventional clusters of fruit, all in relief.
Total height, 48 cm.
Marks: the pine-cone of Augsburg and the mark of the maker, Hanss Weinodt, who died
in 1594 (N° 22 8 in Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition, 1911).
German (Augsburg), circa 1575.
Plate XXIII, N° 1.
A LARGE PINE CUP, PARCEL GILT
~^jL CHERUB, standing on one foot amid cut and curled foliage, surmounts the cover
of the pine-shaped body, which is embellished at the base with leaves. The body
f \ is supported by a figure of Fame blowing a trumpet and having at her side a bunch
J Ik of reeds and the figure of an amorino. These two figures stand on a tall circular
base decorated with large vine leaves in relief. Inside the cover is a pierced medallion of St
George and the Dragon.
Total height, 62 cm.
Marks: the pine-cone of Augsburg and the maker’s mark, 1.1, with a horn below, for Johann
Jager, who died in 1669, or Jacob Jager, who died in 1673 or 1674 (N° 375 in Rosenberg’s
Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition, 1911). ©
German (Augsburg), circa 1645.
Plate XXIII, N° 2.
In addition to the four pieces of plate with this same mark enumerated by Dr Rosenberg in the
above book, there is a large dish at Windsor castle decorated with the well-known subject of
Mucius Scaevola. This is illustrated on plate VI in E. Alfred Jones’s Gold and Silver ofWindsor
Castle, 1911.
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Plate XXIII
SURMOUNTING the cover is a figure of Charity with an infant in her left arm, her right
arm resting on a medallion portrait, which rests on cut foliage. The inverted pine-shaped
body is supported on three branches of vines with three parrots thereon and a figure of
Bacchus on a tun in the middle. Four lizards are applied on the top of the reel-shaped
base, which is worked on the top with a snail and a tortoise, a serpent and a frog, and various
insects. The hollow sides of the base are fluted, while the border is decorated with three oval
strap-work panels containing a snail in one, an insect in the second and a tortoise in the third,
which are separated by conventional clusters of fruit, all in relief.
Total height, 48 cm.
Marks: the pine-cone of Augsburg and the mark of the maker, Hanss Weinodt, who died
in 1594 (N° 22 8 in Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition, 1911).
German (Augsburg), circa 1575.
Plate XXIII, N° 1.
A LARGE PINE CUP, PARCEL GILT
~^jL CHERUB, standing on one foot amid cut and curled foliage, surmounts the cover
of the pine-shaped body, which is embellished at the base with leaves. The body
f \ is supported by a figure of Fame blowing a trumpet and having at her side a bunch
J Ik of reeds and the figure of an amorino. These two figures stand on a tall circular
base decorated with large vine leaves in relief. Inside the cover is a pierced medallion of St
George and the Dragon.
Total height, 62 cm.
Marks: the pine-cone of Augsburg and the maker’s mark, 1.1, with a horn below, for Johann
Jager, who died in 1669, or Jacob Jager, who died in 1673 or 1674 (N° 375 in Rosenberg’s
Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition, 1911). ©
German (Augsburg), circa 1645.
Plate XXIII, N° 2.
In addition to the four pieces of plate with this same mark enumerated by Dr Rosenberg in the
above book, there is a large dish at Windsor castle decorated with the well-known subject of
Mucius Scaevola. This is illustrated on plate VI in E. Alfred Jones’s Gold and Silver ofWindsor
Castle, 1911.
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Plate XXIII