Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - The Age of Oak - 14th January 2025
Lot 148
A NUREMBERG BRONZE CUP WEIGHT
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000
Inc. Buyers Premium
Description
A NUREMBERG BRONZE CUP WEIGHT
BY GEORG SCHILLER OR SCHULLER, GERMANY, C.1650
the tapering body with banded and punched decoration, the hinged cover with a swing handle with figural mounts, hippocampus lock and decorated with two 'dog fish', marked '16' and stamped with a fleur-de-lys and three maker's marks, enclosing a tapering cup weight with incised banded decoration and stamped '64' to the base
20.5cm high, 12cm diameter (max)
Catalogue Note
Georg Schiller (or Schuller) was made Master in 1633.
The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, holds a similar nest of bronze weights as accession number 559:1 to 13-1872.
Literature
Hermann P Lockner, 'Die Merkzeichen der Nurnberger Rotschmiede', entry 715 for details of Georg Schiller and his maker's marks.
Eric Turner, 'Brass', published by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Plate 55 for a group of four similar weights.