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Covered Cup

Artist Hans Greiff (German, active 1470’s)
Place of OriginGermany, Ingolstadt
Dateabout 1470-1490
DimensionsH: 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm)
MediumPartly gilded silver and enamel
ClassificationMetalwork
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number
1961.13
Not on View
Label TextThis presentation cup in the form of a stylized oak tree features Saint Sebastian as the cover’s finial. Sebastian was sentenced to be executed for his Christian faith by being shot with arrows, but survived. As patron saint of archers and soldiers, his inclusion on the cup, along with the enameled shields with the coat-of-arms of the city of Ingolstadt, a rifle, and a crossbow, suggests the cup may have been made for the Ingolstadt confraternity of marksmen.Exhibition HistoryStadtmuseum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, W. Germany. 1988.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hearst: The Collector, 2008-09, no. 44, p. 176-77, repr. (col.).

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