Auctions → Ancient art, modern art and jewelry and clocks September 2015 → September 2015 → Hans Jakob Schech: A museum-like gilded casket
Augsburg, around 1680/90. Silver, gilded, stamped with Augsburg assay mark (indistingt) and MM.: 'HIS', zickzackline, indistingt re-marking.Traces of age and oldrest. (Comp. Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede, vol. III, no. 145 and 1695). H. 8,5 cm, 14 x 11 cm, weight c. 290 g. - Exhibition: A similar casket of Hans Jakob Schech is located in the City Art Collection Augsburg (Inv. No. 4794). - Provenance: Private Collection Hamburg. - Augsburg goldsmith, master since around 1668.