1089 - H. Ehrenlechner Dresden, beaker goblet, hammered 800 silver, filigree band, gilt interior

H. Ehrenlechner Dresden, beaker goblet, hammered 800 silver, filigree band, gilt interior 800 silver, beaker goblet by H. Ehrenlechner, Dresden, hallmarked to the base "H. EHRENLECHNER", "800", crescent and crown as well as "DRESDEN". Hammered body widening conically towards the top, gilt interior, at the transition to the waisted, flared foot an applied decorative band of spirally laid wire (filigree arches) and a row of beads, further decorative borders and encircling engravings, foot rim with beaded edge. Base ring with encircling engraving "RICHARD GEORG ANDREAS WAHLE". Good condition commensurate with age. H. 12 cm, weight 192 g. 360-degree photo available on our website. Hermann Ehrenlechner (1865 to 1943) trained as a goldsmith in Graz and attended the schools of arts and crafts in Munich, Pforzheim and Berlin, where he set up his own business in 1898. In 1902 Karl Groß brought him to Dresden, where he ran his workshop in Löscherstraße and taught at the School of Arts and Crafts. As a member of the Deutscher Werkbund he headed the Neue Werkbundgruppe für Goldschmiedekunst and worked for the city of Dresden and its council treasury; for the table centrepiece "Tulpenbaum" he received a gold medal in 1906. His five children also became goldsmiths, and the workshop later divided into the firms Hans Ehrenlechner and Hermann und Fritz Ehrenlechner. Filigree decoration of silver wire is also found on the workshop's jewellery, for example on a necklace from circa 1910.