Drinking Bowl with the Arms of the Counts Rapperswil
after 1300
Secular Treasures in an Ecclesiastical Context As bishops and abbots of important monasteries held court like secular princes they, too, owned precious tableware that was stored in their treasuries. Decorative objects and ornamental vessels were also frequently donated to religious institutions by the faithful so that originally secular artefacts often acquired new functions as liturgical instruments or reliquaries.
Secular Treasures in an Ecclesiastical Context As bishops and abbots of important monasteries held court like secular princes they, too, owned precious tableware that was stored in their treasuries. Decorative objects and ornamental vessels were also frequently donated to religious institutions by the faithful so that originally secular artefacts often acquired new functions as liturgical instruments or reliquaries.
Time:
after 1300
Object Name
Vessel; Bowl
Culture
Zurich (?)
Material/technology:
Gilded silver, traces of enamel
Dimensions:
D. 20,8 cm
Inscribed
" Trinckgeschier der Gravin Elisabethae von Rappersweyl So die letzte ihres geschlechts und Rudolphi gravens von Habsburg So Ao 1273 gestorben, gemahlin war. Diess Schaalerl hat herr Graf Frantz Ehrenreich von Trautmannstorff Kaysers leopoldi gehaimer Rat und Botschafter in der Schweiz, in dem Benedictiner Kloster zu Baden gefunden und an sich erhandelt und als eine antiquitet Ihrer Kayln. Maj. Verehret Anno 1703." (auf der RS)
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer
Invs.
Kunstkammer, 63
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