Deckelpokal, Münzpokal from the Lüneburg Council Silver, attributed to Jochim Worm, 1536, Lüneburg
Deckelpokal, Münzpokal from the Lüneburg Council Silver, attributed to Jochim Worm, 1536, Lüneburg. Silver, wrought, cast and gilded z. T.. Niello. Height x diameter: 47.5 x 23.5 cm (Top). Ident.Nr. 1874.384. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Photo: Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Photo: Karen Bartsch
Bust and dolphins poured on the shaft. Edges and sides of the cover and base, lip and Astring the Kuppa separately manufactured. Smooth parts of the hump, gepunzter reason leaf wreaths of the shaft and the lid handle, inside of the lid and bottom of the foot and part of the coins unvergoldet. Very fine work, especially those chasing the bust. Marks on the underside of the foot. - Due to a lack of 1990 intermediate ring cover Knauf supplemented on earlier recordings in partly false composition..
Cup of strongly pressed, horizontally staggered form. Gilded reliefing vividly contrasting with the silver base. Foot with shallow curved edge and tremoliertem bead, leaf frieze, profiled Stabmusterzarge and high, twelve relief longitudinal humps occupied on a stippled background curvature. Resting leaf wreath. Stem from walzenartigem, up and down bossed plinth whose retracted wall decorate small dolphins and flowers, as well as with Akanthusrelief Balusterknauf between profile rings, on a double silver or golden leaf cup sits. Kuppa resembling the bottom of the arch, the top wide spreading and sixteen longitudinal hump forming, which are bordered below by leafy vines, of which every second divided by a longitudinal groove. In the constriction a Astring, it rolled leaves and rosettes.On the mouth edge engraved leaf tendrils with five medallions in two warrior heads, a coat of arms and DIVA or POLN. Lid as foot double arched, at the edge of a twisted ring, as a silver frame, nielliertes tape between profiles. Built 16 silver coins down and nine golden top.Hallmarked reason in the spandrels leaf relief. As handle a youth and an old man in patrician costume performing Janus bust on gebuckeltem discus Knauf and leaf garlands.Bust staffed by nine Brakteaten, including on nielloed tape an admonishing Latin saying: JANVS bifrons PRVDE (N) TIS SPECIMEN PRETERITV (M) P (RAE) SENS VE (N) TVRV (M) RESPICE PRVDENS (as two-headed Janus, the image of the wise, think prudently past, present and future), the mutatis mutandis corresponds to a Low German saying to the Deckelzarge: DE WISE MAN OVERVIEW HINDE (N) VN (D) BEFORE WES VORGA (N) GE (N) sheeny VND before the DORAFBROCK MU (N) TE DEIT VNS LERE (N) WHERE THE SICK WERLDE SCHEFTE VORKERE (N). . In the cover inside a round plate with partly enamelled coat of arms (Eichbaum) the founder and engraved inscription: JOHN Koller P (RI) MV (M) SEC (RE) TARI (V) S DE HINC
Prothon (OTA) Rl (VS) DEMV (M) P (RAE) POSIT (VS) LV (N) EBERGE (N) S (IS) DONO DEDIT ON (N) OD (OMI) NI 1536 (John Koller, first secretary, then first secretary, last provost in Lüneburg has given it in 1536)