Footed beaker
Trumpet-shaped beakers with high hollow bases were one of Salgo’s great passions, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art selected several examples from his collection to document their variety of sizes, artistic quality, and type of decoration. Hunting scenes and a lion, elk, and rampant horse are all powerfully depicted on this piece. The applied, molded ring marks the actual bottom of the liquid-containing part of this piece.
Literature
Tihamér Gyárfás. A brassai ötvösség története. Brassó, 1912, p. 108, no. 183.
European and English Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, London, July 11–12, 1985, n.p., no. 80.
Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 50, no. 28.
References
A beaker with a similar foot was sold at auction by Dr. Fischer Kunstauktionen in Heilbronn.
Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, no. 204 [maker’s mark].
Important English, Continental and American Silver and Gold. Sale cat., Christie’s, New York, May 17, 2011, nos. 105–107.
A complete list of similar beakers having the local name “Kluftbecher” in Siebenbürgen would fill pages. For some divergent types with a range of ornamentation, see, Eva Toranová. Goldschmiedekunst in der Slowakei. Translated by Helene Katrinaková. Hanau, 1982, pp. 217–218 and István Heller. Ungarische und siebenbürgische Goldschmiedearbeiten: Vom Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 2000, nos. 20, 22, 25, 28 and 29.
For examples from other German-speaking regions, Hildegard Hoos. Profanes Silber, 16.–20. Jahrhundert, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main, 1992, p. 47, no. 13.
[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]
Literature
Tihamér Gyárfás. A brassai ötvösség története. Brassó, 1912, p. 108, no. 183.
European and English Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, London, July 11–12, 1985, n.p., no. 80.
Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 50, no. 28.
References
A beaker with a similar foot was sold at auction by Dr. Fischer Kunstauktionen in Heilbronn.
Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, no. 204 [maker’s mark].
Important English, Continental and American Silver and Gold. Sale cat., Christie’s, New York, May 17, 2011, nos. 105–107.
A complete list of similar beakers having the local name “Kluftbecher” in Siebenbürgen would fill pages. For some divergent types with a range of ornamentation, see, Eva Toranová. Goldschmiedekunst in der Slowakei. Translated by Helene Katrinaková. Hanau, 1982, pp. 217–218 and István Heller. Ungarische und siebenbürgische Goldschmiedearbeiten: Vom Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 2000, nos. 20, 22, 25, 28 and 29.
For examples from other German-speaking regions, Hildegard Hoos. Profanes Silber, 16.–20. Jahrhundert, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main, 1992, p. 47, no. 13.
[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]
Artwork Details
- Title: Footed beaker
- Maker: Franciscus Rether (active 1634–84, master 1635)
- Date: mid-17th century
- Culture: Hungarian, Brassó
- Medium: Silver
- Dimensions: Overall: 8 3/8 x 4 5/16 in. (21.2 x 11 cm)
- Classification: Metalwork-Silver
- Credit Line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010
- Object Number: 2010.110.22
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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