MARK OF JOHANN SELIGER, REVAL, CIRCA 1700

Details

A BALTIC PARCEL-GILT SILVER LARGE TANKARD
MARK OF JOHANN SELIGER, REVAL, CIRCA 1700
Cylindrical, the front chased with a coat-of-arms of a draped Classical nude standing on a sphere and the dove returning to Noah's Ark after the Flood, all within a foliate mantle below two helmets and the initials I.F. and C.L., the cover chased in high relief with a depiction of Jacob wrestling the angel within a border of putti supporting clusters of fruit and foliage suspended from ribbons, raised on three ball feet chased with fruit and headed by putti against foliage, with conforming elaborately scrolled handle and spherical thumb piece all chased with fruit, marked on underside
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
68 oz. 10 dwt. (2,130.4 gr.)

Provenance

Acquired from Galerie Kugel, Paris.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Goldsmith Johann Seliger (1696-1710) was born in Breslau and became a master in 1696. A similar tankard by Seliger was sold Christie's, London, 19 November 2002, lot 15. Additional tankards by Seliger are illustrated in C. Ehrnrooth, Silver Treasures from Livonia, Estonia, and Courland, Helsinki, 1991, no. 85, p. 131, and A. Leistikow, Baltisches Silber, Lüneburg, 1996, p. 152. The cover of the latter is also chased with a scene of Jacob and the angel, though in a different composition from the present lot.

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