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Beaker

1697-1717 (made)
Artist/Maker
Kittel, Gottfried (goldsmith)
Place of origin
Ohlau (made)

Cylindrical gilded silver beaker with a lid, embossed and chased with shells and scroll work.


Object details

Category
Metalwork
Object type
Beaker
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Beaker
  • Cover (Closure)
Materials and techniques
Silver-gilt, raised, embossed, chased, matted and engraved.
Silver
Raising
Chasing
Gilding
Brief description
Beaker with cover, silver-gilt, Ohlau, Silesia (modern Olawa, South West Poland),1697-1717, mark of Gottfried Kittel.
Physical description
Cylindrical gilded silver beaker with a lid, embossed and chased with shells and scroll work.
Dimensions
  • Base to top of finial on the lid height: 24cm
  • From the foot to the rim (ie. height of beaker without lid) height: 17cm
  • Across the rim of the beaker diameter: 11.4cm
  • Across the underside of the foot diameter: 11cm
  • Across the underside of the lid diameter: 13cm
  • Beaker and lid together weight: 317.3g
  • Weight of beaker without lid weight: 231.9g
Measured by KK in 2012.
Marks and inscriptions
  • On the underside of the base, zig-zag assay mark and three marks: The monogram 'O L' in an oval-shaped punch with undulating moulding, the assay mark of the town of Ohlau (Silesia) during the 17th and 18th centuries (see Rosenberg, III, no. 4329). A crowned eagle facing right, wings spread, a sceptre in one claw, a Prussian tax-exemption mark used from 1809. The initials 'GK' in a circular punch, mark of Gottfried Kittel (master 1697-1717: see Rosenberg, III, no. 4333). On the outer rim of the lid: zig-zag assay mark and the marks of Gottfried Kittel and the Ohlau town assay office.
  • On the rim of the beaker, in German: German, engraved in upper-case letters around the beaker rim: 'JACOB MARTENS JACOBS SOHN IN HAMBVRG DEN .4. 7BR A[nno] 1708'
    Translation
    'Jacob Martens son of Jacob in Hamburg on the 4th F[ebrua]ry in the year 1708 '
Gallery label
BEAKER and COVER. Silver gilt, chased with shells and scrolls; gadroon border, with German inscription round the top. German. Dated 1708. H.9¼ in., diam. 5 in. Bought 10l. 398-'54.(1854)
Associated object
Circ.308-1912
Bibliographic references
  • Pollen, John Hungerford. Ancient and Modern Gold and Silver Smiths' Work in the South Kensington Museum. London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1878.
  • Oman, Charles. Victoria and Albert Museum: German Domestic Silver of the Eighteenth Century. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1965.
  • Rosenberg, Marc. Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, vol. III: Deutschland N - Z. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, 1925.
  • Pechstein, Klaus, ed. Deutsche Goldschmeidekunst: vom 15. bis zum 20. Jahurhundert aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Exhibition Catalogue. Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Berlin: W. Arenhövel, 1987. ISBN 3922912222
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
398:1-1854

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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