A silver-gilt mounted ruby glass beaker and cover - Lot 45

A silver-gilt mounted ruby glass beaker and cover A silver-gilt mounted ruby glass beaker and cover Glass: South Germany, circa 1690 Mounting: Augsburg, late 17th century; master silversmith: Tobias Baur (active 1685-1735) H. 14.6 cm; wt 268 g. Hallmarks: Augsburg Pyr: 1692-1697 (Seling, n°1070) T.B: Tobias Baur (Seling, n°1809) Provenance: Private collection, Germany ; Private collection, France. Exhibition: Ein rheinischer Silberschatz - Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, 1980, no. 395. Bibliography: B. Klesse et al, Ein rheinischer Silberschatz - Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalog: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, 1980, pp. 266-267, no. 395, ill. Comparative bibliography: D. von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Rubinglas des ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts, Mainz, 2001. H. Seling, Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede 1529 - 1868, Munich, 2007. The slightly conical ruby glass bottle rests on an applied ruby glass disk with a silver-gilded wolf's-tooth frame. The ruby glass lid has a gilded silver frame with a spiral gadroon border and a gadrooned spinning top with a base decorated with small cut-out scrolls. Condition: good A similar pair of tumblers is in the collections of Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen (cf. von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, pp. 201-202, no. 182, ill.).