The Imhoff Standing Cup

ca. 1626

Silver gilt.

46.3 cm (height)

Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections, on deposit at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Inv. no. (

DEC0972

)

This impressive cup was a gift from the Holzschuher family to Andreas Imhoff, councillor of the city of Nuremberg, to thank him for protecting their businesses. Its maker, Hans Petzoldt, was one of the most famous goldsmiths of the period. The pear-shaped vase has a lid whose decoration supports a crown topped by a fantastical animal with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, the emblem of the Imhoffs. The stem of the cup is also crafted in the shape of this animal. Salient features are the two rows of reliefs depicting mining and metallurgy scenes, the allegories of the four elements on the foot, and those of the four seasons on the lid. Imhoff was also chief administrator of the metallurgy trade in central Germany, a subject alluded to in the iconographic scheme of the ornamentation. This fact is directly linked to the Thyssen industries, iron and steel undertakings initially established in the Ruhr valley. Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza acquired this piece after it was put up for auction in London in October 1973.

17th Century Silver gilt

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The Imhoff Standing Cup

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