Beaker
1733 (made)
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The Merchant's Guild of Stolp was given or commissioned this beaker in 1773. The ship engraved on the body may refer to the city's maritime trade history, as Stolp was once a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, a rich trading association based around the Baltic sea. The inscription above the ship translates as 'he governs fortune by skill'.
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Materials and techniques | Silver, parcel-gilt, engraved |
Brief description | Beaker, partially gilt, raised and engraved, Poland (Stolp or Schlawe, Pomerania), maker's mark unknown, 1733 |
Physical description | Silver beaker, tapering gently towards the base, gilded around the rim of the base and lip. The interior also gilt. Engraved with an inscription and the crest of the merchants' guild in Stolp (or Schlawe, Pomerania [modern Poland]). |
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Object history | The maker of the beaker - 'M P' - is yet to be identified. The Museum purchased the beaker in 1904 from G. Torck. Historical significance: This beaker represents a form popular in Northern Europe from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth centuries. It may originally have had a lid and been part of a set that stacked together when not in use (for seventeenth-century examples, see for example Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst, vol. I, part 1 (plates), pp.926-7, or the beakers reproduced in Leistikow (1996)). |
Production | Unidentified maker's mark 'M P' in an oval punch, struck on the base of the beaker. |
Summary | The Merchant's Guild of Stolp was given or commissioned this beaker in 1773. The ship engraved on the body may refer to the city's maritime trade history, as Stolp was once a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, a rich trading association based around the Baltic sea. The inscription above the ship translates as 'he governs fortune by skill'. |
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Accession number | 762-1904 |
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Record created | February 9, 2004 |
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