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Objekt 3065

Combination of original and replica: Lidded Cup with Knight

Description

The figure of a knight on bended knee holding a bannered lance originally adorned a vessel belonging to the Cathedral Treasury that is now presumed lost. Felix Sarasin, a burgomaster of Basel, bought the figure at auction in 1836 and his son later commissioned Ulrich Sauter to make a Staufbecher of his own invention in the Late Gothic style on which to mount it.

Object description

Ulrich Sauter (1854–1933), Basel, 1917

Knight: Basel, 2nd half 15th cent.

Parcel-gilt silver

Inv. 1979.336.

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