Saturday 14 October 2023

18th Century Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Jewelled Chalice, Prague and some German Filigree Objects .



 An Early 18th Century Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Jewelled Chalice, Prague.

and some comparable examples of 18th Century German Filigree.

H. 29 cm, Dm. 11.8 cm. 


https://www.rdklabor.de/wiki/Datei:RDK_Granat_Kelch.jpg

Johann de Ambrosy, the chalice of Archbishop Franz Ferdinand Khünburg with  motifs of the passion, Vienna, 1716. 

Gold, gold-plated silver, silver filigree, gemstones, and enamel.

 St. Veit, Treasury. Prague, Inv. No. K 103.



The workmanship here resembles that used on the toilet mirror (illustrated below) which must date to around 1740.



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Calice del Seminario Vescovile.

18th Century Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Chalice.

Museo Clemente Rospigliosi.

Via Ripa del Sale, 3, 51100 Pistoia PT, Italy.

Height 26.5 cms.

https://musei.diocesipistoia.it/index.php/it/calici/56-115-calice-del-seminario-vescovile



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18th Century Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Toilet Mirror c. 1740/50.


https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/treasures-princely-taste-l13303/lot.15.html?locale=en

The frame attributed to - Johann Puchwiser (1680 -1744) Munich.


The silver filigree possibly Lorenz Wernberger (1700 - 67).

66cm. high, 52cm.wide.









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Pair of Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Jewelled Caskets.

Possibly Augsburg or Nuremburg.

Early 18th Century. 

Sold Sotheby's, Paris  Lot 359 20 November 2020.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/style-orfevrerie-et-objets-de-vertu/a-pair-of-silver-gilt-and-silver-filigree-toilet

They say Sumatra end of the 17th Century.

























Sizes 9 x 12 x 10 cm.


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Silver Gilt and Silver Filigree Casket.

Lorenz Wernberger (1700 - 67).

Nuremberg. 

South German.


Dimensions h. 8.2 cm; B. 14.1 cm; l. 10.1 cms.


Johann Lorenz Wernberger was born in 1700 and worked 1729-67. The Catalogue of the Germanisches National Museum lists a spice box by him in Jerusalem, Hechal Shlomo, Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Museum, 950-32-10 and a Torah Shield in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 148/20, 18a N, 2671-6-50




see - 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de%2Findex.php%2Fma%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F28474%2F22166&psig=AOvVaw3ioMSUs2Uepy6hGcS4Q7Ux&ust=1697378435682000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjhxqFwoTCOCsy8fZ9YEDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE








Image from -

https://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/HG7863

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Kartäusergasse 1, 90402 Nuremberg.

Phone:   +49 (0)911 / 1331-0 (head office)

E-Mail:    info@gnm.de



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