A pear-shaped silver-gilt mounted ruby glass tankard - Lot 46

A pear-shaped silver-gilt mounted ruby glass tankard A pear-shaped silver-gilt mounted ruby glass tankard Glass and mount (unmarked) : South Germany, circa 1700 H. 18.1 cm; wt 371 g. Provenance: Emil Mauritz Hünnebeck Collection, Lintorf; Private collection, Germany; Private collection, France. Exhibitions : Barockes Silber aus Rheinischen Sammlungen, Suermondt Museum, Aachen, 1964, no. 175. Ein rheinischer Silberschatz - Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, 1980, no. 423. Bibliography : H. Küpper, Barockes Silber aus Rheinischen Sammlungen, Exhibition catalog: Suermondt Museum, Aachen, 1964; Düsseldorf, 1964, no. 175, ill. 127. B. Klesse et al, Ein rheinischer Silberschatz - Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz, Exhibition catalog: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, 1980, pp. 288-289, no. 423, ill. Comparative bibliography: D. von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Rubinglas des ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts, Mainz, 2001. The pear-shaped mug with handle is made of ruby glass. The gilded silver base is a contoured and fluted pedestal, topped by a circular terraced belt held in place by wolf's teeth. The gilded silver lid is domed with a fluted doucine and topped by a flat terrace with a central molded-sided spinning top. The top of the handle is encircled by a half-ring and a poly-lobed leaf in gilded silver. The thumb rest with cut-out scrolls is attached to the lid and hinge. The number 423 is inscribed under the mug in black ink. Condition: a crack extends from the neck to the base of the handle. For mugs of similar shape, see von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, pages 206 to 213.