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It also shows how fifteenth century designs still appealed in the seventeenth century. An early example of this type of cup (now in the Iparmüvészeti Museum, Budapest) dates to 1481; this one in the V&amp;A bears the Nuremberg town assay mark for 1609-21, 140 years later. Cups during this period had a function beyond that of mere drinking vessel. Goldsmiths were often commissioned to make this particular type, known in German as a 'Buckelpokal', or 'lobed cup', as a gift for visiting civic dignitaries or to commemorate family alliances. As this example lacks any inscription or coat of arms, however, the circumstances behind its making are unknown.","physicalDescription":"Cup and cover, gilded silver with applied silver elements; the bowl chased and applied with twisted rope moulding separating the lobes from the rim which is engraved with scrolling foliage and birds, the stem with cut and curled silver frills at the junction of foot and bowl; the lid chased, with vase finial from which emerge silver flowers and frills.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Philipp Scheurer","id":"AUTH317416"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28674"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Paulus Stein","id":"AUTH319960"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":"Scheurer and Stein share this mark, and are active during broadly the same period. The Nuremberg goldsmiths records do not provide sufficient information to distinguish the two."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"chasing","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53829"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"chased, cast, engraved, electro-gilded","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2014HC0363","2014HC0360","2014HC0362","2014HC0361","2019MC9582"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"6","id":"THES49750"},"free":"","case":"CA2","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Cup and Cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Nuremberg","id":"x29057"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1609-1629","earliest":"1609-01-01","latest":"1629-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"39.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"19/07/2012","earliest":"2012-07-19","latest":"2012-07-19"},"part":"Base to top of lid finial","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"8.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"19/07/2012","earliest":"2012-07-19","latest":"2012-07-19"},"part":"Across the underside of the foot","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"11.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"19/07/2012","earliest":"2012-07-19","latest":"2012-07-19"},"part":"Across the rim of the lid (maximum diameter of cup)","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Marked on outer rim of bowl with:\nLetter 'N' in circular punch, town mark for Nuremberg 1609-29 (<u>Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst</u>, I.1, p. 503, BZ13).\nLetters 'PS' in monogram in an oval punch,maker's mark of Paulus Stein (1581-21: see <u>Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst</u>, I.1, p. 403, no. 862) or Philipp Scheurer (1609-33: see <u>Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst</u>, I.1, p. 375, no. 793).\n\nOn outer rim of bowl, on upper rim of lid and on upper rim of foot: letters 'CE' in shaped punch, the tax mark of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1806-07.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"This is the only known piece of Nuremberg silver marked with the maker's mark of the letters 'PS' in monogram in an oval punch (see <u>Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst</u>, I.1, p. 487, no. 1085). Two possible candidates are recorded in the registers of the Nuremberg goldsmiths company, Paulus Stein and Philipp Scheurer, whose careers overlap with the date of the Nuremberg assay mark on the piece (1609-29).\nThe form of the cup is typical of late-sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Nuremberg goldsmiths' work. The lobed form was extremely popular and these cups were a popular gift among the city élite and as gifts to visiting dignitaries. This particular example bears no inscription, however, or arms, so it is impossible to determine whether it was made in response to a particular occasion.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Cup and cover ('Buckelpokal'), silver, parcel-gilt, Nuremberg,1609-1621, mark of Philipp Scheurer (1609-1633) or Paulus Stein (1581-1621).","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pollen, John Hungerford. <u>Ancient and modern gold and silver smiths' work in the South Kensington Museum</u>. London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1878."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868</u>. 2 vols in 3, Nuremberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2007. ISBN: 9783936688160 (complete set)."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Tebbe, Karin. Trinken und Tafeln. Silbergefä&#946;e für den profanen Gebrauch. <u>In</u>: <u>Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst</u>, II: <u>Goldglanz und Silberstrahl</u>.  Nuremberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2007. pp. 165-204. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 20 September 2007 - 13 January 2008. ISBN 9783936688191"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bimbenet-Privat, M., and A. Kugel. <u>Chefs-d'oeuvre d'orfèvrerie allemande. Renaissance et baroque</u>. Paris: Éditions Faton, 2017. 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