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On display at V&A South Kensington
Silver, Room 69, The Whiteley Galleries

Cup and Cover

ca. 1635-1640 (made)
Artist/Maker
Bantzer, Christof (maker)
Place of origin
Augsburg (made)

Parcel-gilt standing cup and cover, eight-lobed body on a stem, surmounted by a statuette of St. Catherine.


Object details

Category
Metalwork
Object type
Cup and cover
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Cups
  • Lid
Materials and techniques
Silver-gilt
Brief description
Silver, Continental

Silver, Continental
Physical description
Parcel-gilt standing cup and cover, eight-lobed body on a stem, surmounted by a statuette of St. Catherine.
Dimensions
  • Foot diameter: 7.3cm
  • Lip diameter: 8.9cm
  • Height: 28cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • An enamelled inscription in Roman Capitals: HANS. EZWILER. BURGER. ZU. STEIN AM RIN Ao1635 A coat of arms: on a field azure a lion rampant to the dexter, a fleur de lys in its dexter paw, three nails issuant from the helm with mantleing.
  • On rim of foot, lip, rim of lid: maker's mark of Christoph Bantzer [Seling1447], town mark of Augsburg [Seling 61]
Gallery label
Silver Gallery: Many of the cups in this display would have appealed to the aspiring merchant classes of South German towns. The inside of the cover of this cup has an enamelled plaque with a coat of arms within an inscription reading HANS. EZWILER. BURGER. ZU. STEIN AM RIN Ao 1635 (HANS EZWILER, CITIZEN OF STEIN ON THE RIVER RHINE, 1635) The figure on top of the cover is St. Catherine of Alexander a Christian saint and patron of education. She was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded for her Christian faith and here displays her emblems, the wheel and the sword.(26/11/2002)
Credit line
Alfred Williams Hearn Gift
Object history
A similar cup can be seen in the Jurian van Streek painting: Still-life with vessel, a plate and a bowl of fruit.
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.45-1923

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Record createdFebruary 9, 2004
Record URL
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