467 - Historically significant Hamburg Baroque tankard, silver, partially gilded. Domed body, encircled by a relief band of extensively embossed, finely chased flowers and foliage, as well as a contrasting smooth base ring. Cylindrical body framed by narrow profiled rings, with a smoothly finished rim featuring multiple profiles. The sides are decorated all around with a strongly relief-embossed and finely engraved procession of dancing and music-making putti set against a tree-lined landscape. A rim-like, domed, hinged lid with a corresponding floral and foliage decoration and a flared, smooth rim. A round medallion set in the center, framed by a laurel wreath and a pearl band, featuring a three-dimensional relief depiction of David and Goliath. Elaborately relief-carved and sculpturally rendered S-shaped handle ending in two- or three-part scrollwork. An ancient Greek inscription engraved on the underside of the base ring. The number “75” stamped multiple times on the rim and the underside of the base. Gilded on the inside. Hallmarks: several tremoli lines, hallmark of the silversmith’s guild, Master Hanß Lambrecht III (became a master in 1630), Moscow hallmark from 1778. Weight: approx. 905 g. Height: 19.5 cm.

Historically significant Hamburg Baroque tankard, silver, partially gilded. Domed body, encircled by a relief band of extensively embossed, finely chased flowers and foliage, as well as a contrasting smooth base ring. Cylindrical body framed by narrow profiled rings, with a smoothly finished rim featuring multiple profiles. The sides are decorated all around with a strongly relief-embossed and finely engraved procession of dancing and music-making putti set against a tree-lined landscape. A rim-like, domed, hinged lid with a corresponding floral and foliage decoration and a flared, smooth rim. A round medallion set in the center, framed by a laurel wreath and a pearl band, featuring a three-dimensional relief depiction of David and Goliath. Elaborately relief-carved and sculpturally rendered S-shaped handle ending in two- or three-part scrollwork. An ancient Greek inscription engraved on the underside of the base ring. The number “75” stamped multiple times on the rim and the underside of the base. Gilded on the inside. Hallmarks: several tremoli lines, hallmark of the silversmith’s guild, Master Hanß Lambrecht III (became a master in 1630), Moscow hallmark from 1778. Weight: approx. 905 g. Height: 19.5 cm. Hamburg silverware found its way to Russia in the 18th century through expanding trade relations, and this magnificent lidded tankard was likely among them. Other tankards by Hanß Lambrecht III are held, among other places, at the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte in Hamburg, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Royal Collection in England. See Schliemann, Vol. II, Pl. 33, No. 168, pp. 102–107; for another lidded tankard by the master, see Vol. III, Fig. 264, as well as a comparable Hamburg tankard from around 1660 in the catalog *Schöner Trinken*, Basel 2022, cat. no. 110. A rare German Baroque parcel-gilt silver tankard with figural scenes and an Ancient Greek inscription by Hanß Lambrecht III (master since 1630). Gilt on the inside. Several test marks. Assay mark and master’s mark. Tax mark for Moscow, Russia. German. Hamburg. Circa 1650.