A MAGNIFICENT GERMAN SILVER EWER AND DISH Maker's mark of Johann Baptist Weinold I (Weinet), Augsburg, circa 1675 The centre of the exceptionally large dish repoussé and chased in high relief with a scene depicting a Roman hero in a triumphal-chariot with Victory above, accompanying the Sacred flame to the Altar of Mars Pacificator, the flat border repoussé, chased and applied with scrolling foliage, fruit and berries on a matted ground with four figures emblematic of the Continents at intervals - a monarch with scepter and orb for Europe, a Chinese mandarin holding a parrot for Asia, an Indian chief with tobacco pipe and arrows for America and an African potentate holding a lamp for Africa - on later wood support and with later moulded strengthener to the border; the vase-shaped ewer on domed foot repoussé with flowers and foliage and with flat border, the body repoussé, chased and applied with naturalistic flowers and scrolling foliage on matted ground, with auricular scroll silver-gilt handle terminating in leaf above the similarly chased flat cover, marked on ewer and dish the dish 79 cm. (31¼ in.) long the ewer 40.2 cm. (15¾ in.) high The ewer 1,150 gr. (36 oz.)
A MAGNIFICENT GERMAN SILVER EWER AND DISH Maker's mark of Johann Baptist Weinold I (Weinet), Augsburg, circa 1675 The centre of the exceptionally large dish repoussé and chased in high relief with a scene depicting a Roman hero in a triumphal-chariot with Victory above, accompanying the Sacred flame to the Altar of Mars Pacificator, the flat border repoussé, chased and applied with scrolling foliage, fruit and berries on a matted ground with four figures emblematic of the Continents at intervals - a monarch with scepter and orb for Europe, a Chinese mandarin holding a parrot for Asia, an Indian chief with tobacco pipe and arrows for America and an African potentate holding a lamp for Africa - on later wood support and with later moulded strengthener to the border; the vase-shaped ewer on domed foot repoussé with flowers and foliage and with flat border, the body repoussé, chased and applied with naturalistic flowers and scrolling foliage on matted ground, with auricular scroll silver-gilt handle terminating in leaf above the similarly chased flat cover, marked on ewer and dish the dish 79 cm. (31¼ in.) long the ewer 40.2 cm. (15¾ in.) high The ewer 1,150 gr. (36 oz.)
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