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409 - Johann Meinertz
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Johann Meinertz A Gdansk parcel-gilt silver tankard Flat footring and a foot moulding decorated with a repoussé laurel supporting the cylindrical body with moulded lip. Decorated all around with repoussé and finely chased scenes from the life of the prophet Elijah. The domed hinged cover with corresponding decoration; a repoussé acanthus rosette on the crown. The curved handle and bifurcated thumb rest with auricular ornament. Height 18.5 cm; weight 1,109 g. Marks of Johann Meinertz, 1689 - 1699. Provenance Formerly South German aristocratic ownership; Lempertz, auction 437, 8 May 1953, lot 650; private collection, Baden-Württemberg. Literature This tankard is illustrated in Anna Frackowska, Gdańsk Silver Tankards of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Warsaw, 2013, no. XXIV/4.
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