German Parcel-gilt and Polychrome
Enamel Coin-set Tankard

commemorating the Unification of Germany 1871

Attributed to the Friedlander Brothers, Berlin ca. 1876. Fittet with numerous 17th to 18th century thalers.

Height 64 cm
Weight 7,788 g

The tankard can be read as a triumphant allegory celebrating the German victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the resulting unification of the German states.

Provenance

• Sotheby’s Geneva, 12 May 1987, Lot 183
• Private collection, South Germany