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He appears to have moved to Nuremberg already as a married man. While Kellner worked on his masterpiece (from February 1582) his first wife died. In response to this personal tragedy he was given more time to complete his masterpiece. The following year, Hans Kellner remarried.\r\n\nThis beaker was probably once part of a set of Satzbecher (stacking beakers) and dates from the early Seventeenth-century when Kellner was a well-established goldsmith. He is recorded to have been commissioned by the Council of the Imperial City of Nuremberg as well as princes and prince bishops. He also enjoyed the patronage of the wealthy privileged merchant families of Nuremberg known as patricians. Only members of these families were ratsfähig, that is eligible to become members of the City Council.\r\n\nThis stacking beaker is decorated with the coat of arms of the families Löffelholtz von Colberg and Sitzinger and was possibly part of a set created for a marriage between the two families. The Löffelholtz family were aldermen in Nuremberg continuously between 1440 and the end of the independence of Nuremberg as Imperial City in 1806.\r\nA stacking beaker with the same combination of coats of arms was once part of the Pringsheim Collection in Munich, and on display at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"The beaker stands on a large rounded spreading foot decorated with chased foliage on a punched matted ground. The stem, extremely diminutive, is decorated with stamped circles between reeded bands. The lower section of the body is embossed with a calyx of gadroons and foliage. Around the centre of the body, the arms of the families Löffelholtz von Colberg and Sitzinger, punctuate the stylised panels of grotesque monsters and foliage. 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Acquired by Arthur Gilbert from Brand Inglis Ltd., London, 1984.\r\n\r\nThis - or a very similar cup - once belonged to Alfred Pringsheim, whose family made a fortune during the 19th-century railway boom. A professor of mathematics, he was renowned for his silver, gold and ceramics collection. The Nazis confiscated his precious metal objects and gave them to the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. In 1933, the Pringsheims were forced to sell their house, which was then destroyed and a Nazi Party building erected in its place. The confiscated cup was restituted after the war.\r\n\r\nThis object formed part of the V&A's special provenance display 'Concealed Histories: Uncovering the Story of Nazi Looting' (December 2019 - June 2021)","historicalContext":"Beakers called <i>Satzbecher</i> (stacking beakers) of similar form to this, were often made in sets, sometimes supplied with a single cover for the topmost beaker.","briefDescription":"Stacking beaker, parcel-gilt silver, Nuremberg, Hans Kellner, 1603-1609","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy. <u>The Gilbert collection of gold and silver</u>. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 137, pp. 508-13.  ISBN.0875871445"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst. 1541-1868. Band I. Meister, Werke, Marken</u>. Nuremberg (Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums) 2007. 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