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A 17th century German silver-gilt coin tankard Andreas Haidt, Danzig (Gdansk Poland) circa 1680 image 1
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A 17th century German silver-gilt coin tankard Andreas Haidt, Danzig (Gdansk Poland) circa 1680 image 6
From a Private Collection Lots 66 to 70
Lot 68

A 17th century German silver-gilt coin tankard
Andreas Haidt, Danzig (Gdansk Poland) circa 1680

13 – 14 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £46,920 inc. premium

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A 17th century German silver-gilt coin tankard

Andreas Haidt, Danzig (Gdansk Poland) circa 1680
Of cylindrical form, a flat-domed hinged cover centred by a medallion embossed with an armorial monogrammed 'ZABM', within a laurel band bordered by fruit and animals, including a lion attacking a horse, running wolves and a rabbit, opening to reveal a gilt interior, a bifurcated thumbpiece with leaf-capped scroll handle beneath, the body inset with twenty-one silver thalers including Austria, Transylvania, Saxony, Ravensberg, Denmark, Saxe-Gotha, Germany, Liege and Poland, coins dated circa 1540 to 1680, the recesses between gilded and embossed with elaborate high and low relief images of lions, a boar, a bear, wolves, dogs, foxes, a squirrel, fruit and foliage, to the base a Swedish Johan III 4 riksdaler (circa 1587), atop three cast ball and claw feet, height 23cm, diameter 14cm, weight 52oz.

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Provenance
In 1906 offered at an auction of the collection of Georg Agath from Wroclaw (Breslau) at the auction house of Rudolf Lepke in Berlin

In 1914 at the exhibition in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Frankfurth am Main as the property of Philip von Schey (1854-1922)

Sold at Sotheby's auction 'European Silver', Geneva 14th May 1990, Lot 191

From a private collection

Literature
Featured in the following publications:

Anna Frackowska, 'Gdansk Silver Tankards of the 17th and 18th centuries', (Warsaw: ARGRAF 2013), p.376, no. XXIX/8

'Lepke Auction House' Berlin 1906, item 63

'Ausstellung' 1914, p.68, no.148

Darius Nowacki, 'Gdanskie zlotnicktwo XVII w. - proba charakterystyki' in: Sztuka XVII w.1994, p.245, note 34

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