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A TALL EWER, PARCEL GILT
THE flat cover and the lip of this vase-shaped ewer are embossed with fruit, while
the neck is plain. The shallow shoulder is also similarly decorated. Applied on
each side of the centre of the body is a large rosette, this part of the ewer being em-
bossed with large flowers on a matted surface. The lower part is embossed with
vertical strap ornaments and acanthus leaves. The baluster stem is covered with plain bosses, and
at the top and bottom, where joined to the body and the foot, it is embellished with cut and
curled leaves. The oval foot is embossed with acanthus leaves and fruit, and the edge is crinkled.
The scrolled and foliated handle is attached at the top to large acanthus leaves affixed to the lip.
Total height, 43 cm.
Marks: the pine-cone of Augsburg and the mark of the maker, probably Mateus Wolff, who
died in 1716 (N° 470 in Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition, 1911).
German (Augsburg), circa 1680.
Plate XLIX.
A silver horse by this same maker is illustrated on Plate LIV, N° 2.
A leaf-shaped cup, with three smiths hammering at an anvil, probably the cup of a blacksmiths’
guild, and a cup in the form of a bear, by this same silversmith, are in the late baron Ferdinand
de Rothschild’s bequest to the British museum.
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Plate XLIX
THE flat cover and the lip of this vase-shaped ewer are embossed with fruit, while
the neck is plain. The shallow shoulder is also similarly decorated. Applied on
each side of the centre of the body is a large rosette, this part of the ewer being em-
bossed with large flowers on a matted surface. The lower part is embossed with
vertical strap ornaments and acanthus leaves. The baluster stem is covered with plain bosses, and
at the top and bottom, where joined to the body and the foot, it is embellished with cut and
curled leaves. The oval foot is embossed with acanthus leaves and fruit, and the edge is crinkled.
The scrolled and foliated handle is attached at the top to large acanthus leaves affixed to the lip.
Total height, 43 cm.
Marks: the pine-cone of Augsburg and the mark of the maker, probably Mateus Wolff, who
died in 1716 (N° 470 in Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition, 1911).
German (Augsburg), circa 1680.
Plate XLIX.
A silver horse by this same maker is illustrated on Plate LIV, N° 2.
A leaf-shaped cup, with three smiths hammering at an anvil, probably the cup of a blacksmiths’
guild, and a cup in the form of a bear, by this same silversmith, are in the late baron Ferdinand
de Rothschild’s bequest to the British museum.
Page 96
Plate XLIX