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Major Hamburg Wine-Trader's Guild Goblet silver, gilt, round, domed foot, baluster stem, bulbous ...

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:16,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR
Major Hamburg Wine-Trader's Guild Goblet silver, gilt, round, domed foot, baluster stem, bulbous ...
Major Hamburg Wine-Trader's Guild Goblet
silver, gilt, round, domed foot, baluster stem, bulbous cup, suspension, domed fitted lid w/ sculpted putto finial, entire goblet delicately and elaborately engraved, foot w/ wave-, grape-, and grapeleaf bands, var. bacchants, stem w/ foliage décor, cup w/ bacchant procession, medallions w/ amoretto-, grape- and grapeleaf décor, lid w/ bacchants making music, undulating band & foliage band, putto terminal w/ grapes and grapeleaf, height: 67 cm, weight: 2900 g, master's mark CIB = Caspar Jacob Brahmfeld (Schliemann, Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs, No. 516), w/o town mark, ca. 1790, (Lu)
EURO 16.000 - 20.000 US$ 16.000 - 20.000
Major ornate guild goblet of the Hamburg wine-trader's guild, whose wealth and influence is reflected in the elaborate design. The goblet's form is influenced by older examples. In 1785, Caspar Jacob Brahmfeld (1749-1816) assumes the office previously held by his father, Hinrich. A variety of works by Caspar Jacob Brahmfeld have survived and are documented.
Lit.: Erich Schliemann (ed.), Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs, Hamburg 1985.
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