Dekelpokal – A covered drinking cup
Chiselled and silver gilt
Augsburg, 1653-1655
Heinrich Eichler the older
H : 27,5 cm
Literature:
Marc Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, band I, page 131, N° 632.
Christine Kowalski, Die Augsburger Prunkkabinette mit Uhr von Heinrich Eichler d. Ä. (1637-1719) und seiner Werkstatt, Neue Forschungen zur deutschen Kunst, vol. X, 2011.
Description
Covered cups were widely used in the Germanic regions in the 16th and 17th centuries. This work is an unusual variant, characterized by a cup shaped like a high chalice.
Heinrich Eichler, a renowned goldsmith, worked in particular on the exceptional Prunkkabinet preserved at the Braunschweig Museum (Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen, inv. n° 71).
