Covered Cup

Artist Hanns Greiff (German, active 1470’s)

Place of OriginIngolstadt, Germany

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.).