Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Satu Mare. Studii şi comunicări 13. (1996)

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An outstanding piece from Satu Mare’s Museum collection (Summary)

This work’s goal is to make known a cup with lid, which, we consider that is one of the most valuable objects from Satu Mare’s silver ware collection.

Without any craftsman seal (which was striked out as a result of inadequate and repeated restorations), proceeding from analogies in special literature and from catalogues, we do consider that the piece was manufactured in XVII-th century by a silversmith from Nürnberg. Both the cup and the lid represent an ensemble of Christian symbols, so meaningful in whole Middle Ages. But with this concise presentation the theme is far from being finished because it requires thorough researches in order to establish the autorship of this beautiful piece made of valuable metal The list of illustrations Fig. 1. Cup with lid (XVill-th century, Nürnberg)

Fig. 2. Dragon (perhaps Leviathan, the biblical monster)

Fig. 3. Christian virtues

a) Justitia (Justice)

b) Spes(Hope)

c) Fides (Faith)

Fig. 4. Vices:

a) Nero

b) Judas

c) Longinus, the centurion

Fig. 5. Symbolical Christian flowers Fig. 6. Carnations on the button

Note

1. Szilágyi András - Nürnbergi ötvösmunkák (XV-XIX. század) (Opere de argintărie din Nürnberg sec. XV-XIX), Budapesta, 1992. Catalog - piesele cu nr.: 28, p. 31, nr. -34, p. 34;

nr. 60, p. 46.

2. Ivan Evseev - Dicţionar de simboluri şi arhetipuri culturale. Timişoara, 1994, p. 55.

3. Vasile Drăguţ - Dicţionar enciclopedic de artă medievală românească - Bucureşti. 1976, p. 190.

4. Biblia - Cartea lui Iov - Bucureşti, p. 563.

5. ibidem -40/17. p. 563.

6. ibidem - 41/15, 41/16; 41/17; 41/30 - p. 563.

7. Ibidem - 41/12.

8. ibidem - 41/20, p. 563.

9. ibidem - 41/14. p.563

10. ibidem - 41/22, p. 564.

11. Gert Richter - Gerhard Ulrich - Mitológiai és bibliai jelenetek a művészetben (Scene mitologice şi biblice în artă), Budapesta 1994, p. 85.

12. Jutta Seibert - A keresztény művészet lexikona (Lexiconul artei creştine) - Budapesta, 1994.

13. Ivan Evseev - op. cit., p. 20.

14 Virgil Vătăşianu - Istoria artei europene, voi. I, Epoca medie, Bucureşti, 1967, p. 466.

15. Jutta Seibert - op. cit., p. 211.

16. Ivan Evseev - op. cit., p. 21.

17. Jutta Seibert - op. cit., p. 166.

18. Biblia - Facerea, cap. 22/9; 22/10; 22/11; 22/12, p. 31.

19. George Oprescu - Manual de istoria artei. Renaşterea. Bucureşti, 1986, p. 15-16.

20. Biblia - idem, p. 32.