Saturday 7 January 2023

Swedish Silver Filigree Beakers - Rudolf Wittkopf, Straub and others late 17th century.

 

Swedish Silver Filigree Beakers - Rudolf Wittkopf, Johan Nutzel, J.F. Straub and others, late 17th century early 18th Century.

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A Late 17th century Silver Filigree and Silver Gilt, Enamelled, Covered Beaker.

1696. 

Rudolf Wittkopf (d. 1722).

Size - 25,3 x 15,4 x 15,4 cms.





The goldsmith Rudolf Wittkopf (d. 1722) was born in Stade near Hamburg in Lower Saxony, North Germany. He emigrated to Sweden, where he became a master of the trade in Stockholm in 1687 and eventually, from 1711, master of the goldsmiths’ guild in the capital. 

He also made a pair of candlesticks and an hour glass for Hedvig Eleonora, (1636 - 1715) which were donated to Uppsala Cathedral.

Unfortunately this is the highest resolution image currently available.

Image courtesy Stockholm National Museum.

https://collection.nationalmuseum.se:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=9134&viewType=detailView

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Another late 17th Century Silver Filigree, Silver Gilt and Enamelled Beaker.

Height: 24 cm; diameter: 14,5 cm; diameter: 13,5 cm.

Hermitage, St Petersburg.


Here attributed to Rudolf Wittkopf (d. 1722).

This beaker is so close to the beaker illustrated above that it can confidently be attributed to Wittkopf.




No mention of any marks on the Hermitage website.

Image courtesy Hermitage Museum Website.


https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/08.+applied+arts/116398



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A pair of Filigree Beakers 

National Museum Stockholm.

Rudolph Wittkopf

Stockholm date for mark 1698.









These beakers are stamped with the Stockholm town mark, the annual date letter “K” (1698) and the maker’s mark.






These Wittkopf beakers, two of sixteen which were among the presents given to Tsar Peter I of Russia by the ambassadors of the young Swedish king Charles XII, the tsar’s first cousin, in the autumn of 1699. 12 were destroyed in a fire at the Kremlin in 1721.

These were sold by the Soviets in 1931/2 at Bukowskis the Stockholm Auctioneers and bought by a private collector. 

They changed hands twice before being sold again by auctioneers  Bukowskis on 3 June 2020, Lot 120.

26 × 12.3 cm (h × diam), Gift of Märta Christina and Magnus Vahlquist through the Friends of the Nationalmuseum 2020. 

Nationalmuseum, NMK 155–156/2020.


For more on Wittkopf and the pair of Covered Beakers with Filigree Ornament (shown above) and now in the Stockholm National Museum originally given as diplomatic gifts to Tsar Peter I see -

Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum, Volume 27:1, 2020. available online

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1612612/FULLTEXT01.pdf



Below are the photographs from the excellent Bukowski website catalogue entry for these two beakers.










































































For the truly excellent saleroom details for the Bukowski Sale of June 3/4 2020 see - 

https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/625/120-a-pair-of-swedish-17th-century-filigree-and-parcel-gilt-silver-beakers-and-covers-mark-rudolf-wittkopf-stockholm-1698


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Cup and Cover by Rudolph Wittkopf.

Swedish National Museum.





26 x 12.3 cms.


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Silver Filigree Lidded Beaker No 1 at Skokloster Castle.

Rudolf Wittkopf.

1699.

16.5 cms.


Skokloster Castle, Sweden Collection.



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A 17th Century Swedish Silver Gilt Beaker.

with Silver Filigree Cage.

6 inches tall.







Currently (January 2023) with Mayflower Antiques.

https://mayflower-antiques.co.uk/product/a-swedish-silver-gilt-beaker/


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Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Beaker.

JF Straub, Karlstad, Sweden.

Height 15 cms.

A Swedish Silver Gilt Beaker with cover, Stockholm C.1680 maker’s mark for Johan Stahle.

The bachic figure is perhaps a later addition.
































Photographs from the excellent website of Messrs Bukowski of Stockholm, Sweden.

If only all auctioneers provided such excellent images and information.


https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/593/887-a-swedish-early-18th-century-parcel-gilt-and-filigree-beaker-and-cover-mark-of-j-f-straub-karlstad-1674-1713


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 Skoklosters Castle Beaker.  no 2. (my numbering)





Marked JFS for Johan Fredrik Straub. Karlstad.

(1674-1713).

Circa 1674 -1713.

Dimensions  - height: 80 mm (3.14 in).

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Skoklosters Castle Beaker No 3.




 Engraved underneath: "EB".

Stamps: Örn (SB 4832) Karlstad (1674-1713) - JFS for Johan Fredrik Straub.

Circa 1674 until 1713.

Dimensions - height: 70 mm (2.75 in).


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Skoklosters Castle Cup and Cover,  No 4.




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Cup and Cover Skoklosters Castle, No.5.



Underneath marked 32.

Stamps: IS (SB 299). Johan Ståhle, Stockholm, 1677-1687.

Circa 1677 -1687.

Dimensions        height: 154 mm (6.06 in).


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Cup and Cover, Skoklosters Castle No. 6.



Marked RWK. for Rudolf Wittkopf, Stockholm, 1699.

Dimensions height: 165 mm (6.49 in).

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A Swedish late 17th century parcel-gilt filigree tankard, 

marks of Johan Fridrich Straub, Karlstad (1684-1713).

Sold Messrs Bukowskis.



















Johan Fridrich Straub, Karlstad (1684-1713).

Height 19.5 cms.

Sold by Bukowskis Auction House, 2 June 2014.


https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/auctions/580/978-a-swedish-late-17th-century-parcel-gilt-filigree-tankard-marks-of-johan-fridrich-straub-karlstad-1684-1713?from_language=en

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Johan Fridrich Straub, Karlstad (1684-1713).

Sold by Bukowskis.















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Another J.F. Straub Cup and Cover

Sold by Bukowskis.




























Johan Friedrich Straub.

Height 11 Cms.

Bukowskis Auction House - Lot 752, Dec 2013.


https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/577/752-a-swedish-18th-century-parcel-gilt-filigree-beaker-and-cover-marks-of-johan-friedrich-straub-karlstad-1674-1713

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A Swedish 18th century parcel-gilt filigree beaker and cover, 

Makers mark of Johan Friedrich Straub, Karlstad (1674-1713).


From Bukowski Sale no. 562.













Height 11 cms.





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Dish and Cover J.F. Straub.



Uppsala Auctions.

No further details yet.



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Straub at the Swedish National Museum.

A Covered Bowl.

Straub.

Swedish National Museum.




J.F. Straub

Size 13.5 x 21.8 x 34.5 cms.




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J.F. Straub Beaker, No1.

Swedish National Museum.



13.7 x 10.1 x 9.7 cms.




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Cup and Cover J.F. Straub. No 2.

Swedish National Museum.






5.5 x 4.4 x 4.5 cms.


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Cup and Cover. J.F. Straub. No 3.

Swedish National Museum. 



14 x 6 x 6 cms.

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Cup and Cover J.F. Straub No. 4.

Swedish National Museum.




14 x 9 x 9.2 cms.


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Cup and Cover, Johan Stahle. 

Swedish National Museum.




10 x 6.8 x 7.1 cms.

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Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Hinged Cup and Cover

Johan Stahle c. 1680.

Swedish National Museum.





8.2 x 7 x 10 cms


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Beaker and Cover by Johan Stahle.

with Mayflower Antiques




























Height approx 16 cms.

For the beaker with cover by Johan Stahle with Mayflower Antiques see -

https://mayflower-antiques.co.uk/product/a-swedish-silver-gilt-beaker/

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Swedish National Museum.

attrib. Anders Wilhelm Malthow (active 1702 - 30).





Dimensions 16.5 x 9.5 cms.




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Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Beaker and Cover

Swedish National Museum.

Arvid Kastman (1713 - 73).





8.2 x 5 x 5.7 cms.




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Another J.F. Straub Silver Filigree Cup and Cover.

Previously with Stockholms Auktionsverk.


















Height 9.5 cms.

Images from - Stockholms Auktionsverk. 9-12 June 2014.

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Cup and Cover.

Marked Straub.

Image from - Stockholms Auktionsverk

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Cup and Cover J.F. Straub at Sotheby's auction.




15.7 cms.


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Silver Filigree and Silver Gilt Cup and Cover.
at the Dorotheum, Vienna.

Sold Lot 35, 27 April 2021.
Johan Straub.
Height 9.5 cms















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Lauritz, Auction House, Denmark.

3 October 2013.


Mug with Hinged Cover mark for J.F Straub.
















































Height 10 cms.

Johan Friedrich Straub, active 1674-1713, drinking jug, silvergilt and silver filigree.

Drinking jug by Johan Friedrich Straub, verks. in Karlstad 1674-1713.  

Gilded silver with filigree decoration. Cylindrical. Knob and 3 ball feet in filigree work. 

Maximum height 10 cm. Weight 221 g. Stamped JFS.

 

Provenance: The drinking jug must have belonged to General Adjutant Carl Henrik Wrede (1787-1858) and was with him during the Finnish War in 1805 and the Napoleonic War in Russia in 1812. The drinking jug has since been passed down in the family of the current owner.


https://m.lauritz.com/da/auktion/johan-friedrich-straub-verksam-1674-1713-dryckeskanna-sil/i3132938

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17th / 18th Century Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Cup with Cover





Height 7.5 cms.

Sold Bruun Rasmussen, Auctioneers, Copenhagen, 22 Sept. 2021.

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A Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Beaker and Cover
Johan Nutzel (1674 - 1716).

Circa 1690 - 1700.




With Makers mark for Johan Nutzel (1674 - 17160 of Stockholm

Shanghai Museum.

Image etc taken from old files - info needs to be checked.

for more on Nutzel etc see-


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Two Beakers with Covers at the Kremlin Museum.

Cup with Cover 1.

Justinus Johannes von Yhlen (Ihlen).



Justinus Johannes von Yhlen (Ihlen).

Made c. 1676-1698.

 Total height: 9,5 cm; diameter: 5,3 cm.

Presented by King Charles XII of Sweden to Tsar Peter I in 1699.

Published "Ratification of friendship …" Ambassadorial gifts to Russian Tsars. Catalogue of the exhibition. Moscow, 2005.

Silver Gifts from Swedish Monarchs to Russian Tsars during the seventeenth century. - Stockholm : Atlantis, 2014.

The Armoury Chamber of Moscow Kremlin Museums. Album. Moscow, 2006.

Museum number МЗ-2307.

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Cup with Cover 2.

Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree.

Justinus Johannes von Yhlen (Ihlen).

c. 1690's 


Justinus Johannes von Yhlen (Uhlen)

9.5 x 5.3 cms.

Details as beaker above.

Museum number МЗ-2308.

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A Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Bowl and Cover by Justinus Johannes von Yhlen (Uhlen)

Swedish National Museum.



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Johan Schenck. 1691.

Stockholm.

Presented by King Charles XII of Sweden to Tsar Peter I in 1699.


Height 7cms.

Kremlin Museums

https://collectiononline.kreml.ru/en/entity/OBJECT/61383?page=6&query=silver%20gilt&index=297

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Height: 6,0 cm

Presented by King Charles XII of Sweden to Tsar Peter I in 1699.


Johan Schenck. Stockholm1699.

Kremlin Museums.

https://collectiononline.kreml.ru/en/entity/OBJECT/61381?page=6&query=silver%20gilt&index=296


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18th / 19th Century? Silver Filigree Cup and Cover.

With portrait relief and glass and pearls.

Museo della Filigrana Pietro Carlo Bosio, Campo Ligure.












Whilst the distinct similarities with the pieces illustrated above the techniques used here are different - the little repousse relief  is very unusual,

https://www.museofiligrana.org/it/album/europa


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