Lot 1353. A lidded tankard, Augsburg, 1707–1711. Maker's mark: Philipp Stenglin. H 16.5 cm, 530 g. Sold for CHF 3 750 (Est. CHF 3 000 / 5 000) © Koller
 

Silver-gilt. Cylindrical body on a domed foot ring. The flat cover also domed and with a broad rim. Repoussé and twisted tongue decoration to the foot and cover mouldings and the lower third of the body. Above, engraved strapwork decoration on a punched ground and, to the front, an engraved alliance coat of arms with crest. Cast scroll handle, bifurcated thumbpiece and spherical finial.

Lot 1356. A small coin tankard, Königsberg, 1719. Maker's mark: Johann Christoph Wittphal. H 14.5 cm, 725 g. Sold for CHF 6 250 (Est. CHF 4 000 / 6 000) © Koller

Silver, parcel-gilt. Broad, flared, moulded foot ring. Smooth tapering body inset all around with thaler coins arranged in two staggered rows, including Brandenburg-Prussian coins as well as coins of Louis XIV of France. The base inset with a medal inscribed AMOR VICIT OMNIA. The cover, with a projecting rim corresponding in form to the foot ring, inset with a medal bearing a symbolic representation and the inscription GOTT GIB FRIEDEN IN DEINEM LAND – ERHALT WEHR UND NEHR STAND.
Hollow, angular scroll handle with cast thumbpiece on the cover.

Provenance: Private collection, Germany.

Lot 1358. A parcel-gilt presentation tankard, Königsberg, circa 1700. Maker's mark: Christianus Friederichs. H ca. 19 cm; 1,215 g. Sold for CHF 11 250 (Est. CHF 6 000 / 10 000) © Koller
 

Silver, parcel-gilt. Cylindrical form with broad, domed foot section. The body of the tankard with a continuous depiction of the Old Testament scene of the Queen of Sheba before Solomon (1 Kings 10; 2 Chronicles 9). The flat hinged cover also domed, with a broad rim and a central figural relief medallion. The substantial handle with a vertical bead frieze and terminating in a volute-form thumbpiece.

Provenance: - Kunsthandel Friedrich Karl August Huelsmann, Hamburg/Munich, in the 1960s.
- Private collection in Switzerland, for several generations.

Literature: - Weltkunst, Vol. 28, No. 23, 1958, p. 12 (ill.).
- Wolfgang Scheffler, Goldschmiede Ostpreussens, Berlin 1983, No. 278e.

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