Item number: 60196
A baroque silver beaker,
Augsburg 1692-97 by Carl Schuch
The smooth body tapering slightly towards the base. The top rim finished by moulding, the body divided by horizontal line engraving below the lip rim and above the base. The interior with remnants of the original gilding.
An elegant early Augsburg silver beaker from the Baroque period whose simple and unadorned realisation gives it the stylistic appearance of a work from the early 19th century.
8.8 cm / 3.46″ height, 7.3 cm / 2.87″ diameter (top rim), 5.9 cm / 2.32″ diameter (base); 134 g / 4.30 oz
Approx. 0.27 ltr. capacity
The Augsburg silversmith Carl Schuch was born in 1652 as the son of Hieronymus I Schuch. He became a master craftsman in 1682 and married Maria Barbara Peters in 1685. He held the office of foreman in 1724 and 1725 and died in 1731.
Two lidded goblets on lion’s feet made by Carl Schuch and presented as gifts from the town of Torgau to Friedrich August I on the occasion of his hereditary homage on 20th July 1694 are now in the Grünes Gewölbe of the Dresden State Art Collections (see here). A Carl Schuch lidded tankard with engraved reserves is also in the collection of the St. Gallen Historical Museum and is illustrated in Seling 1980, no. 444.
The present Augsburg hallmark is documented for works made between 1692 and 1697.
