German silver-gilt mounted Serpentin tankard

Zöblitzer “Granat-Serpentin”

Saxonia, Zöblitz, ca 1600 – 1620
The silver gilt mounts with hallmark of Nuremberg and master’s mark “BH” for Balthasar Holweck (master 1602 – 1632).

Height 19.5 cm        

Provenance

Private collection, Germany

Literature

Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst, Volume I / 1