Srebrny kufel na ślub Johanna Petera Titza

• Authors: Anna Frąckowska

Title variants

EN

A silver tankard as a wedding gift for Johann Peter Titz

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to describe the silver tankard made by Nathaniel Pressding I for the wedding of Johann Peter Titz with Aurelia von Strackwitz in 1678. The bride and groom received the cup from the students of the Academic Gymnasium in Gdańsk. One of the customary rituals in Gdańsk involved giving gold and silver coins, medals and dinnerware as wedding gifts. Silver tankards were one of the most popular gifts in the late 1600s. The decorations on the tableware were chosen to match the importance of an occasion. In the case of wedding gifts the ornaments were taken either from Bible stories (Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Isaac and Rebecca, the Wedding Feast at Cana) or from Greek and Roman art. The scene of the relief of the tankard’s corpus presents popular decorative elements with Cupid taken from Otto van Veen’s Amorum emblemata… (Antverpiae 1608). The described object is striking in the perfection of its workmanship and refined expression of the creator’s expertise. It is also an example of the first use of the master craftsman’s mark.

Keywords

EN

silver tankard from Gdańsk; Johann Petr Titz (1619–1689); Nathaniel Pressding I; 17th century; Gdańsk goldsmiths; love emblems

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Libri Gedanenses
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 33
• Pages: 55-67

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Anna Frąckowska

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

55787197