A silver-gilt (wine tasting) dish
This small, beautifully chiselled bowl with gilt spheres and dots on the interior and with two cast handles…
A beaker. Holle Sjoerds, Bolsward, 1615
The body of trumpet shape, resting on a moulded and reeded foot with a narrow band of nail-heads, the body engraved and punched with overlapping scales, rising to a broad lip enclosing floral and foliate scrollwork between plain slender bands.
Holle Sjoerds is mentioned in Leeuwarden in 1606, although he was registered on the third insculation plate of Bolsward. Until the commissioning of the guild board in 1623 one may assume a kind of twilight time regarding the registration of masters was clearly extant.
The motif that was applied in the engraving of the body was known as the so-called geteld-geld (counted money) motif. Beakers with a similar decoration were manufactured by other silversmiths, a.o. Obbe Clasen and his pupil Jarich van der Lely, both originating from Leeuwarden, and also by the Sneek master Jan Jansen Uyl.
Provenance
Probably sale, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 2-8/11/1965, Importante kunstveiling van schilderijen, antieke meubelen, antiquiteiten, lot 1001;
Private collection, Netherlands
Literature
Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, Catalogus Belangrijke oude, romantische en moderne schilderijen, […], een importante verzameling antiek Nederlands zilver der XVIIe-XIXe eeuw, […] miniaturen, 02/11/1965, lot 1001
Associated Literature
J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, Wrought Plate of the Central, Northern and Southern Provinces from the Renaissance until the End of the eighteenth Century, Marinus Nijhoff, Den Haag, 1960, n° 266, p. 88, ill. pl. 220, a nearly identical beaker, door Jan Melchers Oostervelt, Leeuwarden, 1627;
A.Wassenbergh en E.J. Penning, Merken van Friese Goud- en Zilversmeden door Elias Voet Jr., Martinus Nijhoff, Den haag 1974, p. 20, n° 29, het meesterteken en herkomst van het bekertje
A.C. Beeling, Nederlands zilver 1600-1813, Leeuwarden 1986, vol. III, p. 60-61, a comparable example by Obbe Clasen, Leeuwarden, 1628;
Dr K.A. Citroen, Dutch Goldsmiths and Silversmith, Marks and Names, prior to 1812, Primavera Press, Leiden, 1993, p. 55;
Prof. Dr Johan R. ter Molen, e.a., Fries Goud en Zilver, OKS, Bornmeer, Gorredijk, 2014, vol. II, n° 173, p. 589, ill. p. 588, a comparable beaker, by Jarich Gerrits van der Lely, Leeuwarden, 1628, with a band above the foot, containing medallions with men’s heads;
Peter Schoen, Tussen hamer en aambeeld, Edelsmeden in Friesland tijdens de Gouden Eeuw, Universiteit Leiden, 2016, chapter 8, p. 207, §8.2.2, De casus Claes Wopkes, note 18
