Traveling set
I.F. Hungarian
Not on view
This compact set is similar to another in the museum's collection, acc. no. 2010.110.79a–i. However, here the case-maker, a separate craftsman from the goldsmith, has positioned the egg cup and spice box so that they frame and intensify the crowded impression of the utensils stored in between. Such egg cups had a double function: hard boiled eggs lying horizontally could be cut up in one bowl, and soft-boiled eggs could be served upright at the opposite end.
Literature
Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, no. 662 [maker’s mark].
Catalogue of Fine European Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, Zurich, May 16, 1979, p. 24, no. 57.
Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 107, no. 84.
References
Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, nos. 662 [maker’s mark] and 658 [similar town mark].
[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]
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