Baroque stoup Rome 1750
Beautiful stoup with an embossed and chiseled silver plaque in the center depicting the Holy Family with a young St. John within a cast, chiseled, and fire-gilded bronze frame with other parts in silver and gilded repoussé copper. On the top there is a cast and chiseled silver dove of the Holy Spirit surmounted by a wreath of lilies. Bottom the holy water cup with two cherubs' heads on either side all in embossed silver.
Roman manufacture of the 1750s. Bears hallmark traceable to that in use between 1750/51. Also bears an unknown miter-shaped hallmark with three spheres and the 1815/17 moor's profile hallmark for the used silverware of title 800 to be sold back on the market.
Goldsmith Francesco Beislach (1735-1762).
Dimensions 36 x 15 cm.
Excellent condition commensurate with age and use.
BEISLACH, Francesco (1735-1762) master silversmith, German, son of Giacomo, born in Halle in 1702.
June 10, 1725: listed among the workers.
1730-1738: with wife Angela Buglioni is listed at Vicolo del Drago.
December 26, 1735: is admitted to the probation.
January 29, 1736: presents his proof and is granted a license with the payment of 21 scudi.
January 25, 1745: death of a child son of F.B. living in the Via di Parione in the house belonging to the Confraternity of the Sacred Stigmata.
1753-1755: lives with his family on Via dei Condotti toward Piazza di Spagna.
September 10, 1761: signs an undertaking not to hire new workers in the workshop.
In 1767 and again in 1770 he is reported as "absent."
On order of the Royal House of Portugal, he made three large gilded silver Lamps for festivals, with applications in ornaments, putti and festoons. Of these, two were delivered between 1748 and 1749 and the third in early 1750. They weighed 240 pounds and the silversmith was liquidated with 10,767.62 scudi a fact for which he protested in a deed dated March 10, 1751. These Lamps were stolen and disappeared from Lisbon during the Napoleonic invasions.
“the design of this vignette detected on some pieces of a Baroque silver inkwell from the period 1750-1760 corresponds to the one deposited by the master on November 24, 1741 with the notary, who describes it with the letters F and B.”
