Deckelpokal Elector Cup from the Lüneburg Council Silver, attributed to Heinrich Folman, 1570, Lüneburg
Deckelpokal Elector Cup from the Lüneburg Council Silver, attributed to Heinrich Folman, 1570, Lüneburg. Silver, wrought, cast, gilded and painted, 60 x 21.7 cm. Ident.Nr. 1874.379. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Karen Bartsch.
Balusters, drums, rings, figures, heads, oval reliefs and heraldic shield cast and roughly chased. (Receive only remnants) Except for parts of the scrollwork ornament, which are painted cold, completely gilded. Transluzider champleve. Marks on the edge of the foot. Left lost figure of the shield.
Architecturally constructed Cup with figural, framed by rich ornament decorative illustrations.High, getreppt up as a bead on strong constriction formed foot edge. On the ground, merging into a groove curvature roll and fitting work with three full plastic busts - two women, a warrior - and three oval reliefs. Against this offset corresponding, similarly ornamented reliefs in the upper vault, which are supported by naked, half-kneeling boy, between three elongated, forming an egg and dart hump. In the constriction profiled ring, it maureske leaf tendrils in enamel. Similar enamel decoration, supplemented by three jumping deer, on the shaft barrel. Vases Knauf reliefiert with scrollwork, fruits, three small deer flanked warrior heads and grotesque masks; three faunsgestaltige clasps, as caesuras tongue rings. Lower part of Kuppa designed in accordance with the foot, cylindrical part is reset. Under arcades before finely tooled tendril pattern and alternating with relief Female Half the seven-dimensional molded figures of the German electors, four of them on their attributes Cup, bowls, sword and key as Bohemia, the Palatinate, Saxony and Brandenburg recognizable, while with reference to the accompanying coats of arms in poorly preserved glass paintings only Cologne is to be determined. Squarrose mouth with engraved Maureskendekor, deposed by profiled rings and Birnfries with lion masks. On the lid, the tongue edge overhangs far, three oval ornament reliefs in cartridges, intervening sculpted busts warriors.The lid assembly varies the stem, as a decorative vines and putti heads. As crowning a Roman warrior with spear.
The figurative reliefs events from ancient history. At the foot below the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus, the foundation of Rome and the murder of Remus. In three Roman heroes: Horatius Codes defended the bridge, Mucius Scaevola burns his hand and Marcus Curtius plunges into the abyss. At the bottom of the bead Kuppa escape the Cloelia from captivity at Porsenna, a battle with a dragon and M. Valerius Corvus, the stabs the Gauls. On the upper Kuppawulst Alexander, who can put in a shrine of Homer works, the suicide of Cato (?) And a banquet. The reliefs of the cover seem to portray the triumphal entry of a king and its legislation or jurisprudence not have specific events, but want to point out the general requirements of a good regiment. Inside the lid and under the foot circular reliefs with representations of Susanna and the old and Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well. You assigned three sculpted putti, which those appearing in the lid with fruits in hand before an engraved park background.
