Jakob Betzold, 1621 – 1707, zugeschrieben

IVORY LIDDED GOBLET WITH GILDED SILVER MOUNTING Height: 31 cm. Enclosed CITES document, valid for commercial purposes in the EU. Ivory, silver, gilt. Gilt copper interior. The carved wall of the goblet is oval to match the ivory, showing - in keeping with the overall theme of the "Triumphal Procession of Bachus" - closely grouped putti, with grapes and a wine jug, accompanying a childlike Bachus riding the panther, the symbolic animal that, according to legend, had nourished him. His head is covered with grapes and leaves. He is preceded by a faun sputto with trestle legs and a blowing horn. The entire scene thus forms a procession of putti. Mounted on a sturdy base in gilded silver, on four spherical feet in the shape of open pomegranates. The wall of the base is bulbous, decorated with vine tendrils with putti and birds in their arches. The lid has a corresponding design, also with a curved rim and relief decoration, with putti, a vine, grapes and a putto drinking from a horn. Crowned by a twisted spigot rising above the lid. The ivory wall can be attributed to the ivory carver Johann Jakob Betzold, who was active in Schwäbisch Hall in the 17th century, documented from 1651-1680. The attribution can be justified by comparisons: A similar piece, an "unmounted hump cylinder with putti bachanal", can be found in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich (Room 85, inv. no. R 4748). Here, too, several putti are holding cloths over the scene. Another "Cupid's Cylinder from the circle of Johann Jakob Betzold" is in the Museum Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck. Further examples have been collected by the Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, which were shown in the exhibition "Leonhard Kern and Europe" from 29.3.-3.10.2021. The Landesmuseum Württemberg / Kunstkammer also holds an example that is also closely related in style to the present example. The mount is stylistically somewhat later. A rectangular indentation on the upper rim - an opening for a handle - indicates that it was once fitted into a jug. A.R. Provenance: Frederic Spitzer Collection, sale Paris 28 April 1893, no. 203, price at the time 6000 Frcs, illus. plate II in the cat. edited by Dr. Achille Ètienne Malécot, 1895. Literature: Molinier, 1896, I., no. 193 p. 327. Exhibition: "Ivoires du musée du Louvre: 1480-1850, Une collection inédite", September 2005, catalog illus. p. 17. (14023112) (11) Jakob Betzold, 1621 - 1707, attributed LIDDED IVORY CUP WITH GILT SILVER MOUNTINGS Height: 31 cm. Accompanied by CITES document, valid for commercial purposes in the EU. Ivory, silver, gilt. Inside wall in gilt copper. The carved vessel wall of the goblet is oval, corresponding with the shape of the ivory. In correspondence with the overall subject, it depicts the Triumphal Procession of Bacchus: closely grouped cherubs, with grapes, wine jug, accompanying a childlike Bacchus riding on a panther, the symbolic animal which fed him according to legend. The vessel wall can be attributed to the ivory carver Johann Jakob Betzold, who worked in Schwäbisch Hall in the 17th century, recorded from 1651 to 1680. The attribution is based on comparisons: A similar piece, an "unmounted cylindrical tankard with cherubs and bacchanal" is held at the Bayerische Nationalmuseum in Munich (room 85, inv. no. R 4748). Provenance: Frederic Spitzer collection, sale Paris 28 April 1893, no. 203, then priced at 6000 French francs, ill. panel II in cat. - edited by Dr Achille Ètienne Malécot, 1895. Literature: Molinier, 1896, I., no. 193 p. 327. Exhibition: "Ivoires du musée du Louvre: 1480-1850, Une collection inédite", September 2005, cat. ill, p. 17.