SILVER COMMUNION PITCHER.
Augsburg. 1707-11. Daniel I Sch鋐fler.

Silver with remains of gilding. On multiply retracted round foot with profiled edges pearshaped; smooth body. In the upper part; exhibited from a small round profile and with pointed console spout and curved ear handle. The slightly domed hinged lid flattened at the top and with spinning top knob as well as forked thumblift. Ca. 972g. Height 27.5cm.

Inscribed on lid; pitcher edge and foot: Inspection mark Augsburg 1707-11 (Seling no.1320); maker's mark Daniel I Sch鋐fler (1701-1727; ib. no.1951). Condition A/B.

Provenance:
Hessian private collection.

Literature:
Seling; Helmut: Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede 1529-1868; Munich 2007. For this
work cf. pp.455.

Of the extant and documented objects by Daniel Sch鋐fler among others pitchers and
credenzas as well as cups worked by him are kept in the collections of the Gr黱es Gew鰈bes
in Dresden; the Silver Chamber of the Residenz in Munich or the Schlossmuseum in Gotha.