Terms and conditions of use
Standing cup and cover
(c. 1620)
- Medium
- silver-gilt
- Measurements
- (a-b) 49.7 × 11.6 cm diameter (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- Nuremburg, Germany
- Inscription
- (a) punched in outside of upper rim: N
punched (vertically) in outside of upper rim: (fish)
punched in outside rim of base: (fish) - Accession Number
- D43.a-b-1974
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1974
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
-
Franz Vischer was a prominent silversmith working in Nuremburg who played a leading role in the revival of the Gothic style in the early seventeenth century. Made at the beginning of the seventeenth century, when the influence of classicising Renaissance ornament was being felt in Europe, the cup is decorated with swirling lobes typical of the fifteenth-century Gothic style, which remained popular long after other Gothic ornament had vanished. Decorative covered cups were used on ceremonial occasions and also as objects for display on a buffet.
- Physical description
- On shaped base, chased bosses, central stem section cast pineapple knop, upper section three cast brackets.