Jewish interest - An early 18th century German silver tankard, Hamburg circa 1720, by Johann Wilhelm Heumann (active 1700-32)

Of cylindrical form raised on three ball feet, the hinged gently domed lid raised by a ball finial. The C-scroll handle with a cartouche terminal. The front later engraved with quartered coat of arms reserved in foliate mantling. The lid later engraved with two crests; upon a mount, a squirrel sejant cracking a nut, between on the dexter side a trefoil slipped, and on the sinister a branch of hazel fructed extending to the dexter, and secondarily upon a mount a peacock regardant in tts pride, between two roses, leaved and slipped. The ball finial later engraved with initials HFW in flourished cursive script below a Baron’s coronet. Engraved with contemporeaous intials underneath J.P. in simple script. Marked with town mark and makers mark either side of handle.

Height – 23 cm / 9 inches

Weight – 1332 grams / 42.82 ozt

The crest and arms are for Faudel and Phillips

For Sir George Faudel-Phillips (1840-1922) 1st Bt, who was the son of Sir Samuel Benjamin Phillips (1811-1889) and Rachel Faudel (1812-1880). are the quartered arms and crests of the Jewish families of FAUDEL and PHILLIPS, adopted by Royal Licence in 1895 by Sir George Faudel-Phillips (1840-1922), 1st Baronet, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1896. His parents were Sir Samuel Benjamin Phillips (1811-1889) by Rachel née Faudel (1812-1880). Born George Phillips he later adopted the family name Faudel-Phillips in recognition of inheritance from his maternal great-uncle, the brother of the father Henry Faudel (died 1863) of his mother Rachel Faudel.

See Rosenberg, Marc Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Frankfurt-Am-Main 1923. vol. II, p. 148, no. 2434.

A dressing table casket by Heumann circa 1700 was sold Christie’s Amsterdam, 4 April 2007, Lot 645 (€40,800 incl. premium)