Tapering cylindrical, finely engraved with a wild boar hunt and foresters in a landscape with town beyond, with inscription engraved around the rim, marked underneath, engraved with gothic letters 'rr' and with later French import mark
3⁵⁄₈ in. (9.2 cm.) high
4 oz. 12 dwt. (144 gr.)
The inscription reads 'DER WINTERMOND DEN WINTER SCHAFT NIMPT ALLGEMACH DEM FELDT SEIN KRAFT' which loosely translates as the winter takes its strength from the spring.

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Marc Rosenberg (Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Frankfurt, 1922, p. 247, 1121, no. 1091) notes that the maker's mark is recorded on a pineapple cup in the Walter von Pannwitz collection, Munich, sold in 1905 and possibly on a communion chalice inscribed with date 1649.