Chalice of Iber
The cup from Iber is in the High Middle Ages crafted chalice from Iber in Einbeck ( district Northeim , Lower Saxony ), which in August Kestner Museum in Hannover is kept.
history
The production of kuppa and paten is dated to around 1180. One of the first pastors at the church in Iber after the Reformation was Johannes Letzner , and one of his successors had a new base made for the chalice around 1670.
After the goblet had survived the Thirty Years' War and the Second World War , its importance in art history was recognized in 1957. The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Iber , which belongs to the parish of Leine-Solling, then presented the chalice to the Kestner Museum in Hanover as a permanent loan.
description
The chalice (height 17.8 cm; rim diameter 11.3 cm) is made of silver and decorated with niello . The unknown workshop is assigned to the area of today's Lower Saxony . Four gold-plated medallions are engraved in the goblet. They represent the following topics:
- the Annunciation to Mary
- the birth of Jesus Christ
- the descent from the cross of Jesus Christ
- the resurrection of Jesus Christ
The four ornaments are connected by banners . The 17th century foot depicts the crucifixion of Christ as the fifth motif.
Comparative work
Only a few comparable goblets have survived from the 12th century: one from a Berthold, probably Berthold III. , the chalice donated to Wilten Abbey and the two Tremessen chalices from the holdings of the Gnesen Cathedral . There is also a goblet from another workshop in the Kolumba Museum in Cologne , which is dated to the same century.
Two goblets made a few decades later from this period are in the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum, owned by the churches of St. Godehard and St. Mauritius .
literature
- Johannes Sommer: The Niellokelch von Iber: an unknown masterpiece of Hildesheim goldsmith's art of the late 12th century . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft , Volume 11, Issue 3/4, 1957, pp. 109-136.
- Peter Pollmann: Mysterium Fidei - On the religious-historical significance of the Niello chalice from Iber . In: Einbecker Jahrbuch 30 (1974), pp. 83-85.
- Cord Meckseper (Ed.): City in Transition. Art and culture of the bourgeoisie in Northern Germany 1150–1650 . Lower Saxony State Exhibition 1985, Stuttgart 1985, Vol. 2, p. 1216 No. 1054.
- Horst Hülse: The inscriptions of the city of Einbeck (= The German inscriptions Bd. 42). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1996, No. 4 ( digitized version ),
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory number: DI 42 No. 4.
- ↑ The Wiltener chalice with paten
- ↑ Kolumba goblet
- ^ Bernhardskelch: Christine Wulf, DI 58, No. 64, in: www.inschriften.net
- ↑ Hezilokelch
Web links
- Photos of Cuppa and Patene on www.artigo.org