Cup and cover in the form of a musketeer
On display
His sword, staff and musket detachable; reinforcing piece round the neck of the head.
Details
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Title
Cup and cover in the form of a musketeer
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Artist/maker
Georg Christoph Erhart, I (1593 - 1628) (goldsmith) -
Associated place
Augsburg (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1595 - 1600 -
Material and technique
parcel-gilt silver
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 cm (height) -
No. of items
2
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 53 | European Goldsmiths' Work -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA2013.1.162
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Further reading
Jones, Edward Alfred, Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of Leopold de Rothschild, Esquire (London, 1907), 18, plate XVIII
J.F. Hayward, Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the triumph of Mannerism, 1540-1620 (London, 1976), 505, 386-7
Wilson, Timothy, ‘The Ashmolean: The Michael Wellby Bequest no. 65, Spring 2013’, (2013), p.3
C. Truman, ‘Oxford's silver gilt bequest: The Art Newspaper’, (2013)
Wilson, Timothy, Winterbottom, Matthew, Treasures of the Goldsmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, 2015)
