Baroque pouf

Silver, fully gilded. On a rounded, convex, and multiply profiled base of a cylindrical body with a smooth zone highlighted by profile lines and a narrow rim. The upper and lower halves of the walls are adorned with a fine chased ornamental band featuring ribbon work and floral calyxes over a punched background. A hinged rising lid with a wide projecting zone and a central engraved, alloyed monogram. The base and lid are surrounded by narrow, uniform gadroons. A voluted, divided thumb rest and ear loops strung with pearl beads. Marked, tremolier line, hallmark, date letter "B", master Georg Kallert the Elder (master since 1702). Weight approx. 365 g. Height 12 cm. See Hintze, Breslau’s Goldsmiths, plate II, figures 15, 30, and plate IV, figure 125, as well as p. 96. An exceptionally small Baroque gilded silver lidded tankard from Wrocław, by master Georg Kallert the Elder (master since 1702). Gilded inside. Test mark, assay mark, and workshop mark, date letter "B". Silesia. Breslau. 1712-1721.