Beaker
1723 (made)
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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
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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. |
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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
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Accession number | M.487-1910 |
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Record created | February 9, 2004 |
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