Live Auction 2004Important English, Continental and American Silver
A GERMAN SILVER TANKARD
Lot 76 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A GERMAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF D. VOLLGOLD & SOHN, BERLIN, CIRCA 1860

Closed22 May 2008

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A GERMAN SILVER TANKARD
MARK OF D. VOLLGOLD & SOHN, BERLIN, CIRCA 1860
Tapering cylindrical, the double walled tankard depicting a genre scene of seated revelers, men on horseback hoisting tankards, and figures roasting fowl on a spit, the base and neck with band of ivy and roses, the handle formed as an ivy-clad entwined branch, the cover with a sleeping figure holding as flagon, an empty tankard beneath his foot, the interior gilt, marked under base, also marked with later Austrian control mark
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high; 37 oz. (1156 gr.)

Specialist note

This tankard was produced by a number of firms and fashioned by electrotyping in order to produce exact copies. For example, a French silver firm manufactured the tankard as well as a beaker and pipe, illustrated in John Culme, Nineteenth Century Silver, 1977, p. 175. D. Vollgold & Sohn produced numerous commissions for the Prussian royal family and was known for exhibiting at international exhibitions.