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Cup - Cup

Cup

  • Object:

    Cup

  • Place of origin:

    Nuremberg, Germany (made)
    Germany (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1650 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Schwanhardt, Georg (the elder), born 1601 - died 1667 (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Rock crystal, with silver-gilt mounts

  • Museum number:

    49-1867

  • Gallery location:

    Sculpture, room 111, case 2

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Rock crystal is a transparent, colourless quartz. The art of carving rock crystal was known in Roman times and in Egypt under the Fatimid dynasty (909-1171). In Europe it was practised mainly in the north, but also in Italy. The Miseroni family, working in Milan then Prague from the 1550s, supplied the courts of Europe with rock crystal.

Physical description

Cup, rock crystal, engraved on the wheel, with silver-gilt mounts which bear the maker's mark E.K.

Place of Origin

Nuremberg, Germany (made)
Germany (made)

Date

ca. 1650 (made)

Artist/maker

Schwanhardt, Georg (the elder), born 1601 - died 1667 (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Rock crystal, with silver-gilt mounts

Descriptive line

Cup, rock crystal, with silver-gilt mounts, by Georg Schwanhardt the Elder, Germany, 17th century, ca. 1650

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

[Exhibition catalogue] Der Freiburger Bergkristallschliff der frühen Neuzeit. Freiburg, 1997. p. 153. no. 106.
Schmidt, R. Zum werk Georg Schwanhardt. Schlesiens Vorzeit. IX.
Meyer-Heisig, Erich. Der Nürnberger Glasschnitt des 17. Jahrhunderts. Nürnberg : Nürnberger Presse, 1963. pp. 26-44.

Materials

Rock crystal

Categories

Sculpture

Collection code

SCP

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