Forging, chiseled casting, repoussing, engraving/gilded silver, silver coins
Dimensions: height: 24.5 cm, foot diameter: 18.3 cm, weight: 1789g
Marked on top of the body
Numismatics: in the cover, a religious medal signed 'IH' made by Johann Höhn around mid-17th century with a bust of Christ on the obverse and a reverse depicting Christ sitting on a tomb and holding a chalice; in the body, medals in two rows of 6 thaler coins, including Emperor Rudolf II, Salzburg issues, a thaler of Swedish King John dated 1576 and a second Swedish thaler dated 1644; in the foot, a thaler of Sigismund III Vasa dated 1630.
Origins
Collection of Count Stolberg-Wernigerode, Kamienna Gora or Drogosze, early 20th century. (?)
private collection, Italy
private collection, Poland (purchased by an antique shop in Pasaw)
Literature
compare Eugen von Czihak, Die Edelschmiedekunst frühererer Zeiten in Preussen, vol. 1, Allgemeines, Königsberg und Ostpreussen, Leipzig 1903, p. 54, no. 144 (there the marking of the master and included "a large goblet with thalers belonging to Count Stolberg-Wernigerode, Kreppelhof (Silesia) or Dönhoffstädt (East Prussia)," possibly identical to the one presented)
