Live Auction 11670The Collection of a Distinguished Swiss Gentleman
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
Lot 72

A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD

MARK OF ULRICH II MERINGER, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1570

Closed8 July 2015

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GBP 12,500

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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MARK OF ULRICH II MERINGER, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1570
Tapering cylindrical and on rim foot with demi-female figure scroll handle with bird's claw terminal, the hinged domed cover with figure cast thumbpiece, the cover inset with a silver coin, the base later engraved with an inscription, marked underneath
5 ¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
16 oz. 19 dwt. (527 gr.)
The inscription reads 'Franz Christoph Graf Frangepan Ano 1661'

Possibly Franz Christoph Graf Frangepan, 1661.
by repute, Kunsthandel Basel, May 1978.

Specialist note

The inscription may be for Franz Christoph Frangepan or Fran Krsto Frankopan (1643-1671) who in the Zrinski–Frankopan Conspiracy stood against Emperor Leopold I (r.1658-1705) in Croatia and Hungary. In 1671 he was sentenced to death for treason and beheaded with his brother Zrinski in Vienna Neustadt.