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Beaker

1723 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rudolph Wittkopf (maker)
Place of origin
Stockholm (city) (made)

Trumpet shaped beaker encircled by gilt moulded band with 3 hoops hung with a ring, narrow moulded rim with band of zigzag ornament, zigzag ornament around foot, foot ribbed, ring and foot gilt.


Object details

Categories
Metalwork
Drinking
Object type
Beaker
Materials and techniques
Silver, parcel-gilt
Brief description
Silver, Continental
Physical description
Trumpet shaped beaker encircled by gilt moulded band with 3 hoops hung with a ring, narrow moulded rim with band of zigzag ornament, zigzag ornament around foot, foot ribbed, ring and foot gilt.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 7.60cm
  • Foot diameter: 5.90cm
  • Height: 9.30cm
Marks and inscriptions
On the base: makers mark of Rudolph Wittkopf, town mark the St Erik’s head of Stockholm, year mark a scrolled L for 1723.
Gallery label
BEAKER Silver parcel-gilt SWEDISH; Stockholm hall-mark for 1723 Maker's mark for Rudolph Wittkoff M.487-1910(Pre-2000)
Object history
Acquisition RF: 10/5157M
Purchase - (£299 M485 to 490-1910) M Hammer, Strandgaden 57, Bergen, Norway


From Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975, p165: Since Wittkopf (master in 1697) died on 18 April 1722 this piece must have been made in his shop. He is described by E Andren (Swedish Silver, New York 1950, p45) as the most skilful of the German born silversmiths working in Stockholm in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.487-1910

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Record createdFebruary 9, 2004
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