Gottfried Schmidt Lot n° 409

Large Leipzig screw-top bottle Silver, partially gold-plated. Five-pass body with offset shoulder on a flat base. The sides of the wall with embossed and finely chased fruit bands between high oval reserves with allegorical depictions of the seasons, each inscribed "Ver", "Aestas", "Autum" and "Hiems", with two reserves with cupids facing each other assigned to spring. Marks: BZ Leipzig with year letter F for 1680 - 1683, MZ Gottfried Schmidt (1667 - after 1681, Rosenberg no. 2994, 3017 f., 3053), tremolier engraving. H with raised handle 27.5 cm, weight 943 g. Leipzig, Gottfried Schmidt, 1680 - 1683. Provenance Verst. Christie's Geneva, Nov. 1988, lot 60; Kunsthandel Fritz Payer, Zurich 1988; West German private collection. Literature On the Master, see Schröder, Leipziger Goldschmiede aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Leipzig 1935, no. 1273. A globular foot cup by the Master is in the collection of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig.