LOT 1209 Lidded goblet, so-called interim gobl
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Lidded goblet, so-called interim goblet of the Lüneburg council silver, reproduction with residual silvering around 1875 by the Berlin court jeweler 'D. Vollgold & Söhne' after the design of Jochim Worm 1552/53, four-pass vaulted base with vine tendrils in relief, arabesques and devil figures, stepped rim with banner, as shaft fully plastic figure of the blessing Christ on toad-like dragon with curled tail and heads of pope, devil and Turk, strongly constricted dome with rich relief decoration, plastic warrior heads and four biblical scenes with corresponding biblical passages at the mouth rim: 1. Baptism of Christ, 2. Transfiguration of Christ, 3. Sermon of Paul, 4. Temptation of Christ, the four-piece lid with four relief medallions with two kneeling praying figures each referring to the fully plastic Babylonian whore on the 7-headed monster, on the back of the figure the relief coat of arms of the founders Heinrich Witzendorff and Elisabeth Töbing, inside the lid the coat of arms of the purchasers Franz Witzendorff and Ursula Garlop, in 1874 the Prussian state with the help of the director of the Gewerbemuseum Berlin Julius Lessing bought the silver treasure for 220 000 thalers from Lüneburg, but the condition was that Berlin would produce replicas at its own expense.
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