Tobias Baur

First-aid kit in your suitcase Silver, metal; gold-plated. Parallelepiped-shaped case with gold-embossed leather cover and gilded brass fittings; the interior lined with blue-grey silk. A concealed drawer behind the two-door, lockable front. Inside, a ready-made insert with round and oval recesses; containing ten lidded jars, two crystal flacons and four ruby glass bottles, a beaker and a ruby glass bowl with handle, some with gilded silver mountings, a funnel, a spoon and a spatula. In the lid a removable mirror with original faceted glass; the wooden frame covered with silver foil. The case renewed or newly covered. Marks: Eight lidded boxes, the beaker and the handled bowl with BZ Augsburg for 1697 - 1699, MZ Tobias Baur (1685 - 1735, Seling no. 1150, 1809), tremolier engravings. H of the casket 15; W 26.5; D 22 cm. H of the cup 7 cm. Augsburg, mostly Tobias Baur, 1697 - 1699. Provenance Rhenish private collection. Literature Cf. Baur's pieces from a toilet set in the collection of the Maximilian Museum, Augsburg, illustrated in Seling 1980, no. 559. Cf. also his ruby glass mounts in a traveler's toilet case, illustrated in cat. The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, Los Angeles 1988, no. 152.