Columbine cup
On display
Columbine masterpiece cup, silver, gilt at the rim and inside. The cup has six lobes at the rim and the body and is embossed and chased. Around the rim six scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses; around the body six plumb putti with emblems and moralizing inscriptions. The stem has three rams' heads; on the base are small creatures: a beetle, a snake and a lizard. The whole of the surface is ellaborately embossed and chased.
Details
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Title
Columbine cup
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Artist/maker
possibly Wolff Christoph Ritter (1592 - 1634) (goldsmith) -
Associated place
Nuremberg (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1610 - 1620 -
Material and technique
silver
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.7 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.
WA2013.1.188
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Further reading
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), Band 1, Teil 1; no. 732; Band 1, Teil 2, p. 798, no. 253
Wilson, Timothy, Winterbottom, Matthew, Treasures of the Goldsmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, 2015)
