Tankard
On display
Ruby-glass tankard, silver-gilt mounts, the thumbpiece and handle have applied angelic figures with arms spread. The finial formed as a pinecone. The hinged lid is engraved with three emblematic scenes with inscriptions in Latin and German: 1. a tower flanked by clouds, inscribed: 'NOCEAT TIBI NILQ[UE] PERICLI' and 'Dass kein Angst und sturm wimdt [schao]'; 2. two hearts with a wing above and rainclouds above that, inscribed; 'SED TE TEGAT ALA POTE N TIS' and 'Sein flinger dect uns frue und spatt'; 3. a tree with a jehovah symbol among rays, inscribed: 'ITA CRESCES DANTE JEHOVA', and '[Gottlose] uns machlen durch sein genade'.
Details
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Title
Tankard
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Artist/maker
Andreas Berckmann (1651 - 1688) (goldsmith) -
Associated place
Nuremberg (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1685 -
Material and technique
silver-gilt, ruby-glass
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Object type
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Dimensions
20.3 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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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.
WA2013.1.271
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Further reading
Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo von, Rubinglas des ausgehden 17 und des 18 Jahrhunderts (Mainz, 2001), 226
Karin Tebbe, Ursula Timann, Thomas Eser, Ralf Schürer, Birgit Schübel, Peggy Grosse, Said Habib, Ulrike Rathjen, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868, 3 (Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg, 2007), 56.24, Band 1, Teil 1, no. 56.24 BZ22
Schroder, Timothy, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection (Paul Holberton publishing, London, 2012), p. 299-349
Wilson, Timothy, Winterbottom, Matthew, Treasures of the Goldsmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, 2015)
