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Lot 25
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Hans Jacob Baur German parcel-gilt silver altar dish

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • silver
  • 32.4cm, 12 3/4 in wide
shaped oval, the centre embossed with a winged cherub supporting two laurel wreaths, one enclosing the Holy cypher, the other the cypher of the Holy Mother

Provenance

G. Laue, Munich

Literature

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 24

Condition

In overall very good condition. Usual minor scratches.Legible marks on border. Nice quality.
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Catalogue Note

Hans Jacob Baur became a master goldsmith in Augsburg in 1622. He married Magdalena, daughter of the goldsmith Hans Warnberger I, in the same year and died in 1653.