Friedrich EDLER (active 1720-1740), Kufel

Forged silver, repoussed, engraved, cast and chiselled hallmarked (Königsberg mark, goldsmith's monogram FE, date letter, test tube partially rubbed off);
Height 16 cm, width 16.6 cm, foot diameter 13.2 cm; weight 568 g.
Königsberg, 1920s-1830s.
Cylindrical tankard, supported on a circular shaped foot with a smooth half-shaft, reinforced with a flat orifice, decorated on the mantle with a repoussed representation of four putti playing on the water's edge amidst a landscape. One of them is soaking his feet in the water while plucking fruit from a tree, another is resting lying under a tree directing his gaze towards a squirrel eating a nut, which is being shown to him by a third boy sitting nearby, the fourth putto is sailing through the water on a fish. Mug ear c-shaped, ending at the bottom with a shield. The hinged lid, similarly shaped as the foot, upraised in the middle, decorated with an engraved stylized rosette, with a handle at the hinge for lifting the lid composed of volute helms.