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Silver, Room 69, The Whiteley Galleries

Beaker

1670-1674 (made)
Artist/Maker
Winter, Peter (maker)
Place of origin
Augsburg (made)

This German beaker is embossed with 'putti' (small boys) representing Astrology, Sculpture and Painting. It was given to the Museum by Colonel F.R. Waldo-Sibthorp in 1898 along with over 184 other pieces from his silver collection, including many examples of German domestic silver. The Museum Director of the time, Caspar Purdon Clarke, commented 'The selection of objects from the collection of plate was a difficult matter as many pieces were greatly admired by their owner for the fineness and difficulty of workmanship - qualities which in the early 18th century often predominated over those of beauty of form and delicacy of design.'


Object details

Categories
Access_to_Images 2003
Drinking
Metalwork
SCRAN
Object type
Beaker
Materials and techniques
Silver, parcel-gilt, engraved and embossed
Brief description
Silver, Continental
Physical description
Walls of beaker raised and embossed with floor soldered in. Lip decorated with 2 pairs of concentric engraved lines. Walls embossed with 3 acanthus-framed roundels with putti representing Astrology, Sculpture and Painting.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.80cm
  • Rim length: 8.20cm
  • Foot width: 6.30cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • On medallions: SCULTURA, PICTURA, ASTROLOGIA; on base, engraved in slightly archaic style, and probably 19th century, are three coat-of-arms suspended from a bow, the shields a lion rampant, a greyhound rampant and an antelope courant and chevron.
  • marks beneath rim: town mark for Augsburg for 1670-74; maker’s mark of Peter Winter
Credit line
Given by Col. F. R. Waldo-Sibthorp
Object history
Acquisition RF: 96867/1898
Colonel FR Waldo-Sibthorp Gift
Production
Peter Winter (master 1651, died 1702)
Summary
This German beaker is embossed with 'putti' (small boys) representing Astrology, Sculpture and Painting. It was given to the Museum by Colonel F.R. Waldo-Sibthorp in 1898 along with over 184 other pieces from his silver collection, including many examples of German domestic silver. The Museum Director of the time, Caspar Purdon Clarke, commented 'The selection of objects from the collection of plate was a difficult matter as many pieces were greatly admired by their owner for the fineness and difficulty of workmanship - qualities which in the early 18th century often predominated over those of beauty of form and delicacy of design.'
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
1891-1898

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Record createdFebruary 9, 2004
Record URL
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