Cup, half of a so called “Doppelscheuer”

Silver-gilt
Augsburg ca. 1565-1570
Theophil Glaubich (master 1551-1572)
Height: 24 cm, weight: 699 g

Provenance

  • Pringsheim Collection, Munich
  • Freiherr Karl von Rothschild, Frankfurt 1889, see Der Schatz des Freiherrn Karl von Rothschild, Meisterwerke alter Goldschmiedekunst aus dem 14.-18. Jhd., ed. F. Luthmer, Frankfurt 1883, ill. XXII.

See the Musée national de la Renaissance in Ecouen is in possession of the second half of the Doppelscheuer. Also see Doppelscheuer of Theophil Glaubich in the Rüstkammer Moskau, ill. in Helmut Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede, Munich 1980, vol. 2, ill. no. 129.

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