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459 - Michael Pontanus
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Michael Pontanus A Régence parcel-gilt silver christening beaker Waisted footring supporting a tapering vessel with a moulded lip; the body decorated with engraved Régence ornament on a punched ground, with two reserves bearing the interlaced monograms “MP” and “JCS”. Engraved beneath the lip, “Johan Caspar Siefert geb. 1732 d. 26. Januarij”. A 1/3 thaler of Brandenburg-Prussia dated 1675 set into the base. The lip with a small crack. Height 11 cm; weight 149 g. Schlawe an der Wipper, marks of Michael Pontanus, around 1732. Literature Rosenberg mentions a beaker inscribed “Der Kauffmanns Zunfft 1733”, bearing identical marks, in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The baptismal register of Schlawe an der Wipper records the brewer and goldsmith Michael Pontanus as godfather to Johann Caspar Siefert on 26 January 1732.
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