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Sheath

1623-35 (made)
Artist/Maker
Daniel Lang (goldsmith)
Place of origin
Augsburg (made)

Silver belt hook with a figure of cupid attached by two chains to the collar of a knife case with holes for two knives. The collar is decorated with two putti and a band of pierced scrollwork. A central band and the top of the chape has similar pierced decoration. The chape is also decorated with two human heads.


Object details

Category
Metalwork
Object type
Sheath
Materials and techniques
silver, cast, pierced and chased
Silver
Brief description
Set of silver mounts for a knife case on a red velvet covered sheath with silver chains and belt hook, the sheath Augsburg, Daniel Lang I, 1623-35; the belt hook probably Augsburg, unknown maker.
Physical description
Silver belt hook with a figure of cupid attached by two chains to the collar of a knife case with holes for two knives. The collar is decorated with two putti and a band of pierced scrollwork. A central band and the top of the chape has similar pierced decoration. The chape is also decorated with two human heads.
Dimensions
  • Tip of sheath to end of belt hook length: 50.5cm (maximum height with chain outstretched)
  • Across top of the sheath diameter: 4.5cm (maximum diameter of sheath)
  • Sheath alone, from tip to top of suspension ring length: 21cm
  • Belt hook, from end to end length: 6cm
  • Belt hook back to highest point of cast figure on front height: 1.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • On the suspension loop attached to the sheath, on one side: Augsburg town mark, a pine cone, perhaps for 1625-30 (Seling: 1980, vol. III, no. 51). The Augsburg town mark overstamped with a small, illegible mark in a rectangular punch, probably the letters 'E T' in a rectangle, the import mark for Paris, 1864 onwards (Carré: 1971, p. 213). The maker's mark, 'DL' in monogram in a rectangular punch, the maker's mark of Daniel Lang, I (d. 1635) (Seling: 1980, vol. III, no. 1388).
  • On one side of the suspension ring attached to the belt hook: Letters ?'CD' in monogram, in a rectangular punch, unidentified maker's mark (not recorded in Seling : 1980 or Seling: 1994). On the other side: Small, illegible mark in a rectangular punch, probably the letters 'E T' in a rectangle, the import mark for Paris, 1864 onwards (Carré: 1971, p. 213).
  • On the hook of the belt-hook, zig-zag assay mark.
Credit line
Given by Dr. W L Hildburgh, FSA
Subjects depicted
Putti
Scroll-Work
Cupid
Bibliographic references
  • Seling, Helmut. Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868: Meister, Marken, Beschauzeichen. 3 vols. Munich: Beck, 1980. ISBN 3406057292 (set).
  • Seling, Helmut. Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868: Supplement zu Band III, Meister, Marken, Beschauzeichen. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1994. ISBN: 3406378072.
  • Carré, Louis. A Guide to Old French Plate. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971.
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.6-1945

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Record createdMay 20, 2005
Record URL
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