Beaker
3rd quarter 18th century (made)
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This drinking vessel is hung with small pendant discs, a form of decoration commonly used by Norwegian goldsmiths. It was made by Ernst Peter Michelsen Rømer (1719-77), who worked as a goldsmith in Kristiania (now Oslo) from 1747.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver, parcel-gilt |
| Brief description | Beaker, partially gilded silver, Norway (Kristiania, now Oslo), mark of Ernst Peter Michelsen Rømer, 3rd quarter 18th century |
| Physical description | Trumpet shaped body, inside gilt, everted rim, moulded band below rim with strawberry leaf decoration with 6 loops each hung with gilt concave disc; soldered gilt cord on lower body with 3 cherub heads, wide domed foot. |
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| Gallery label | BEAKER.
Silver parcel-gilt. Maker's mark, E R.
NORWEGIAN; 18th CENTURY.
Given by Colonel F. R. Waldo-Sibthorp.
1879-1898.(Pre-2000) |
| Credit line | Given by Col. F. R. Waldo-Sibthorp |
| Object history | From Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975, p105: 'The maker's mark is that of Ernst Peter Michelsen Romer (1719-77) who was working as a goldsmith from 1747 in Kristiania ... For an inventory of his possessions taken in 1778 after his death, for Romer himself and for reproductions of 3 pieces by him in international styles see H. Grevenor and Th. B. Kielland (Gullsmedhaandverket i Oslo og Kristiania, Oslo 1924) ... The identification is supported by the crowned C of the town mark, since the town mark of Kristiania from c. 1629 until c. 1785 consisted of a crowned C with two, later four, figures for the year.' Acquisition RF: 96867/1898 |
| Production | Kristiania (now Oslo, Norway) |
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| Summary | This drinking vessel is hung with small pendant discs, a form of decoration commonly used by Norwegian goldsmiths. It was made by Ernst Peter Michelsen Rømer (1719-77), who worked as a goldsmith in Kristiania (now Oslo) from 1747. |
| Bibliographic reference | Lightbown, R. W., Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, V&A, 1975
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| Accession number | 1879-1898 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2004 |
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