Silver mug

Silver, fully gilded. On a convex base surrounded by a tongue frieze stands a cylindrical body that transitions into a narrow profiled rim. The middle section of the body is faceted eight times and adorned with chased armed bundles, the upper and lower parts of which are decorated with two rows of longitudinally impressed, punched humps with volute ornamentation. The lid, in the form of a hinged lid corresponding to the shape of the body, is adorned with a decorative band encircling it, consisting of mutually arranged volutes, and culminates in a small spherical finial above a plastically molded rosette made of twisted silver threads, the so-called "bee." The side, narrow, and volute-shaped ear, decorated with pearl ornamentation, ends in a stylized leaf pattern, divided by a cut arc-shaped clasp. On the underside is an engraved coat of arms of the ancient Schleswig-Holstein noble family von Krackwitz, with three fish arranged in a three-pass order with a common head, as well as the inscription "A.G.V.K." likely for Adam Gallus von Krackwitz and the date "1629." Gilded inside. Made, workshop marks, master Nikolaus Weis (became a master in 1613). Weight approximately 220 g. Height 11 cm. See Germanisches Nationalmuseum catalog, volume I, part 1, MZ 946, BZ 13; for this, see volume I, part 2, illustration 537, a comparable Humpen by the master in the Iparművészeti Múzeum in Budapest, as well as the catalog "Schöner Trinken," Basel 2022, catalog numbers 108, 119, two Nuremberg Humpen around 1620 with similar form and decoration. A very rare small Nuremberg gilded silver cup from the Renaissance period by master Nikolaus Weis (master from 1613). With the coat of arms of the ancient Silesian noble family von Krackwitz and a monogram. Gilded inside. Mark and workshop mark. Nuremberg. Around 1629.