Lot 240
Lot 240
COLLECTION FRITZ ET SABINE PAYER LOTS 236 À 270
TANKARD ALLEMAND EN VERMEIL

PROBABLEMENT AUGSBOURG, VERS 1570

Price Realised EUR 30,240
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EUR 8,000 - EUR 12,000
Closed: 12 Jun 2025
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TANKARD ALLEMAND EN VERMEIL

PROBABLEMENT AUGSBOURG, VERS 1570

Price Realised EUR 30,240
Closed: 12 Jun 2025
Price Realised EUR 30,240
Closed: 12 Jun 2025
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De forme trompette reposant sur trois pieds en masque de chérubins ailés, le corps uni ciselé de lambrequins et cuirs, repris sur le couvercle dômé avec prise bobine surmontée d'un putto tenant un verre et un écu gravé d’armoiries, l'anse latérale ciselée de festons et terminée par un appui-pouce en forme de sirène, le fond du tankard serti d'une médaille de Maximilian II datée 1563, poinçons sur le bord du pied et sur le couvercle: taxes postérieures autrichienne et française, numéro d'inventaire Pringsheim 41/230 peint en blanc sur le fond
H. 18.5 cm. (714 in.)
486 gr. (15 oz. 12 dwt.)
Les armoiries sont celles de la famille Schrankenmiller ou Schrankenmüller originaire d'Augsbourg. (E. Zimmermann, Augsburger Zeichen un Wappen, Augsburg, 1970, Tafel &, No 186.).
La médaille sertie dans le fond du tankard est par Lukas Richter et célèbre le couronnement de Maximilien II de Habsbourg (1527-1576) élu roi des Romains en 1562 et en 1564 roi de Bohème, roi de Hongrie et empereur des Romains à la mort de son père Ferdinand I (1503-1564).
Provenance
Dr. Alfred Pringsheim (1850-1941), Munich.
Confisqué par les autorités nazies le 21 novembre 1938 dans le cadre de la collection Pringsheim.
Vendu au Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, en 1941.
Transféré par le Bayerisches Nationalmuseum au centre principal de collecte de Wiesbaden en 1946.
Restitué aux héritiers du Dr Alfred Pringsheim en 1953.
Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, en avril 1956.
Albrecht Neuhaus Kunsthandel, Wurtzbourg, 1987.
Literature
L. Seelig, Journal of the History of Collections, 'The Art Collection of Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941)', vol. 29, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, pp. 161–180, fig. 13.
L. Seelig, Die Silbersammlung Alfred Pringsheim, Abegg-Stiftung, 2013.
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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1570
On three winged cherub mask feet, the tapering cylindrical body engraved with bands of strapwork and scrolls, the base inset with a coin of Maximilian II dated 1563, the scroll handle chased with festoon and with demi mermaid thumbpiece, the domed cover similarly decorated as the body with spool shaped final applied with the figure of a Bacchic putto holding a glass and supporting a shield, engraved with the arms of the Schrankenmiller family of Augsburg, marked on foot and cover rims with later Austrian and French tax marks, painted on the base with Pringsheim inventory number 41/230


The coat of arms belongs to the Schrankenmiller or Schrankenmüller family from Augsburg. (E. Zimmermann, Augsburger Zeichen und Wappen, Augsburg, 1970, Plate 8, No. 186.).
The medal set into the base of the tankard is by Lukas Richter and commemorates the coronation of Maximilian II of Habsburg (1527–1576), who was elected King of the Romans in 1562 and, in 1564, became King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, and Holy Roman Emperor upon the death of his father, Ferdinand I (1503–1564).


The wealthy mathematician and university professor Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941) owned one of Germany’s most important private collections of Renaissance art, especially noted for its majolica and silver. He formed the collection between 1880 and the First World War. Pringsheim commissioned a mansion to be built in Munich by Berlin architects which he furnished in a southern German–Swiss late Renaissance style. Unusually for the time his collection was displayed on open shelves, the silver in recesses set into the panelled walls of the dining room. The tankard can be seem amongst other drinking cups in a photograph dated circa 1916 Thomas Mann Archives - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich).

Pringsheim's taste was very different to that of the Rothschild's who preferred gold and silver-gilt objects with opulent figural ornamentation, much of it enamelled and adorned with gems. He favoured simpler forms chased, embossed and finely engraved or etched. Alfred Pringsheim's first purchase in 1889 was a stacking beaker and German Renaissance silver dominated the collection. In 1938 Alfred Pringsheim's collection was seized by the Nazis and acquired by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in 1941 before being restituted to the heirs after the war and acquired by Rosenberg & Stiebel in New York in 1956.
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