Baroque hampen

Silver, partially gilded. On a profiled, highly convex round base with a cylindrical body featuring a hinged, corresponding convex lid and a two-part, folded finger loop. Smooth wall with a wide border highlighted by delicate profile lines and rings. Around it, three oval engraved cartouches adorned with volutes, acanthus leaves, and flanked by cherub heads with allegorical depictions of figures in architectural landscapes, respectively "NONVI," "PATIENTIA," and "SOLERTIA." The base, lower part, and lid contain a total of 16 inserted coins, including a 1630 thaler depicting Archduke Leopold V of Austria-Tyrol, as well as a so-called speciedaler depicting Christian IV of Norway and Denmark, Copenhagen, 1628. Side ear loop. Gilded interior. Made with marks, master Georg Konrad Kressel (became a master around 1699). Weight approximately 490 g. Height 16 cm. A pewter jug, so-called Briot jug, by Isaac Faust (Strasbourg, 1623) with comparable allegorical depictions and inscriptions is illustrated in Boucaud / Frégnac, Zinn, p. 102, fig. 129, as well as in the Württemberg State Museum, Stuttgart. Inv. No. [G 9, 485]. See Scheffler, Berlin, BZ 4 d, No. 253. Exceptional German Baroque silver gilded jug with coins by Georg Konrad Kressel (master from around 1699). Gilded interior. Hallmark and master's mark. German. Berlin. Circa 1727.