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 eightfold and decorated with chased armed bundles, the upper and lower parts of which are adorned with two rows of longitudinally impressed, punched humps with volute decoration. The lid, in the form of a hinged lid corresponding to the shape of the body, is decorated with a surrounding decorative band consisting of mutually arranged volutes, and is topped with a small spherical finial above a plastically molded rosette of twisted silver threads, the so-called "Schmeck". The side, narrow, and volute-shaped ear handle, adorned with pearl decoration, 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 Weiss (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 shape and decoration. A very rare small Nuremberg gilded silver cup from the Renaissance period by master Nikolaus Weiss (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. Circa 1629.