Lot 1340. Liddled Tankard, Augsburg, 1685–1687. Maker's mark: Israel Thelott. Silver, parcel-gilt. H 15.5 cm, 591 g. Sold for CHF 6 250 (Estimate CHF 3 000 / 5 000) © Koller
 

Domed foot with repoussé vine decoration. The cylindrical body of gilt silver, overlaid with an openwork repoussé sleeve depicting putti and a swan in a continuous figural scene. Domed cover with broad rim and cast grape decoration. Spherical finial, scroll handle and bifurcated thumbpiece.
 

Provenance: Swiss private collection.
 

Note: The relief sleeve may have been executed by Johann Andreas Thelott while working as a journeyman in the workshop of his father, Israel. For the significance of Johann Andreas Thelott (active 1654–1696) as a 17th-century goldsmith, see exh. cat. Silber und Gold. Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst für die Höfe Europas, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 23 February–19 June 1994, Munich 1994, pp. 379–380.

Lot 1342. Liddled Tankard with snakskin punchwork, Zurich, circa 1680. Maker's mark: Hans Jacob III Bullinger. Silver-gilt. H 15.5 cm, 591 g. Sold for CHF 10 625 (Estimate CHF 12 000 / 18 000) © Koller
 

Domed foot with broad moulded rim. Cylindrical body with smooth, moulded lip. The cover also domed and slightly convex. Ribbed spherical finial, curved scroll handle and volute-form thumbpiece. Foot, body and cover decorated throughout with fine snakeskin punchwork. Engraved initials R.S. on the underside of the foot ring.
 

Provenance: - Possibly the Moppert Brothers, Baden-Baden, in the 1880s.
- Private collection in Switzerland.
 

Literature: - Eva-Maria Lösel, Zurich Goldsmithing from the 13th to the 19th Century, Zurich 1983, no. 99f.
- Possibly Marc Rosenberg, Goldsmith’s Marks, Berlin 1928, no. 9070a.

Koller, Works of Art & Decorative Arts, 17. September 2026