Silver mug

Silver, partially gilded. On a base outlined with narrow profile lines and a rounded profile rises a tall, slightly swaying, bell-shaped goblet. The lower part is decorated with double profile lines and a protruding rim. The lower half of the wall is adorned with a relief-carved tongue with finely engraved, alternating leaf decoration and crowned with stylized diamond-shaped leaves. Gilded inside. Markings: engraving, a trembling stroke, an indicator, an unclear workshop mark, likely Matthew II Baur (master circa 1681), as well as a tax mark for Paris (1687-1691). Weight approximately 45 g. Height 5.8 cm. Provenance: from the silver collection of Werner Hauger, Baden-Baden. See Seling 2007, number 1776, BZ 0980; see also Volume II 1980, figure 376 (decoration and form), as well as Rosenberg, Volume IV, number 6458. A small German Baroque silver tankard with partial gilding, likely by Matthew II Baur (master from circa 1681). Gilded inside. Hallmark, assay mark, and unclear workshop mark, French tax mark (1687-1691). German. Augsburg. 1685-1687.