Lot 164
Lot 164
COLLECTION EUROPÉENNE PRIVÉE
TANKARD POLONAIS EN VERMEIL

PAR VEIT KOCH, BRESLAU, VERS 1590

Price Realised EUR 10,080
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EUR 10,000 - EUR 15,000
Closed: 22 Nov 2024
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TANKARD POLONAIS EN VERMEIL

PAR VEIT KOCH, BRESLAU, VERS 1590

Price Realised EUR 10,080
Closed: 22 Nov 2024
Price Realised EUR 10,080
Closed: 22 Nov 2024
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De forme trompette, ciselé de motifs cuirs peuplés d'animaux et centrés de bustes ailés sous tente canopée, le couvercle à l'identique avec trophées de fruits, l'anse avec appuie-pouce en buste de femme, le couvercle avec prise en forme de putto tenant une corne d'abondance, l'intérieur du couvercle gravé d'une armoirie sous les initiales PKA dans une couronne de laurier, poinçons sur le pied: ville et maître-orfèvre; sur le fond: striche
H. 16.5 cm. (612 in.)
405 gr. (13 oz.)
Provenance
Collection privée du sud de l'Allemagne.
Senger Bamberg Kunsthandel, Bamberg.
Literature
Marc Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Bd. 1, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, S. 286.
Erwin Hintze, Die Breslauer Goldschmiede; eine archivalische Studie, Leipzig, 1906, Tafel III, No 63.
J.F. Hayward, Virtuoso Goldsmiths 1540-1620, London, 1976, No 181.
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A POLISH SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MARK OF VEIT KOCH, BRESLAU, CIRCA 1590
Tapered the body chased with mannerist scrolls and animals centred by winged busts with canopy above, the corresponding cover with fruit trophies, the scroll handle with femal bust thumbpiece, the cover with putto finial holding a cornucopia, engraved inside the cover with a coat-of-arms and initials PKA within a laurel wreath, marked underneath: town, maker and assay

Veit Koch [Friedrich Kecher] was the son of Alexander Koch from Rindeschmeid near Biberach in Swabia. He became a citizen and master in Breslau in 1580; in the same year he married Martha, the widow of the merchant Paul Cyrus. After Martha's death in 1583, he married Anna, the daughter of the tailor Adam Stange, in 1584. Koch died in 1619 in Hans Clemens's inn at the age of 69. His widow Anna continued the workshop and died on 13 January 1635.
The decoration used on this tankard is typically Mannerist in its composition and was made popular with goldsmiths by engravers active in southern Germany, especially in Augsburg and Nuremberg. Known as Schweifwerk, this style of motifs replaced the high-relief decorations of the masters of the Ecole de Fontainebleau and seems to have been introduced by the Nuremberg painter Georg Wechter (1526-1586), who published his book of ornaments ‘Stück zum verzachnen für die Goldschmied verfertigt’ in 1579. At the same time, the technique of Punzenstiche (dotted decoration) was introduced and consisted of transferring the decorations by marking them in dotted lines on the surfaces to be decorated. Wechter's designs were adopted by three Punzenstiche specialists: Bernard Zan, Jonas Silber and Paul Flindt.
The decoration on this tankard, with its mannerist scrolls, trophy flowers and grotesques, was inspired by several drawings, including one of a tankard by Bernhard Zan dated 1581, held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (No. 28543), and another by Paul Flindt dated around 1590, also held at the Victoria & Albert Museum (No. E.2679-1910). These engraved designs quickly and widely spread throughout Europe, to be adopted by silversmiths to become a European style.
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