Renaissance tazza Silver, partially gilded.... Lot 39

Renaissance tazza Silver, partially gilded. Circumferentially godroned gilded foot with snakeskin hallmark, slender smooth silver shaft. The interior fully gilded bowl with raised navel around the mint mark with the Bourbon coat of arms held by a dragon and the inscription "S:ANTHOINE: PARENT". The flag with punched ground and alternating radial decoration, ten recessed godrons, interspersed with raised vegetal hanging decoration. Marks: Dutch revenue stamp of 1859 - 93 (Tardy, p. 322). H 7,5, D 20,6 cm, weight 368 g. Augsburg, Tobias Kramer, attributed, first third of the 17th century. The splendidly decorated foot bowl was previously located in the Netherlands due to its Dutch repunctuation, with an attribution to Leiden based on a similar object in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. However, in the collection of the Museum August Kestner in Hanover there is a second, almost identical object, with only the central coat of arms varied, bearing the marks of Tobias Kramer, dated 1620 - 1625. Another tazza in the collection of the British Museum, with the enamelled coat of arms of Martin Scholl, town clerk in Biel, also bears Kramer's marks, plus several English and Continental control marks. The marks were discussed again in the catalogue of the 1980 exhibition, as the bowl in England is dated 1597. In the case of Tobias Kramer, Seling suggests a date of birth around 1582, which would make the object a very early work. His master's examination did not take place until around 1613. Seling found two more foot bowls/credenzas by the master: in the treasury of the cathedral in the Wawel in Krakow (Inv.No. 6044) and in the Kremlin Museum in Moscow (Inv.No. 11658). Tobias Kramer died around 1634, but nevertheless left behind an important œuvre, including a gilded elephant clock, which today belongs to the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and to which the bowl presented here may also belong. Literature Cf. the foot bowl by the silversmith Tobias Kramer, Augsburg, 1620-25, in the Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Inv.No. 1910.7. Cf. another tazza by Tobias Kramer, Augsburg, c. 1597, in the British Museum, Mus.No. AF.3068. Cf. cat. World in Transition. Augsburg between Renaissance and Baroque Vol. II: Town Hall, Augsburg 1980, No. 715. Cf. Seling, Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede 1529 - 1868 Meister Marken Werke, Munich 2007, no. 1277. Cf. the Leiden foot bowl for Adriaen van Swieten in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection, inv.no. BK-NM-12135. Cf. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, vol. I, The Hague 1952, no. 26. Cf. Catalogus van Goud en Zilverwerken. Benevens Zilveren, Loden en Bronzen Plaquetten, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1952, no. 51. Cf. B. Dubbe, De drinkschaal, in: Antiek, 1975/76, no. 10, p. 1002, fig. 27. Cf. den Blaauwen (ed.), Nederlands zilver, The Hague 1979, no. 2, the bowl from Zierikzee of 1580, on a tall baluster shaft and no. 9, the bowl from Amsterdam, 1603, also on a vase shaft.