Covered cup: Hercules Supporting the Heavenly Sphere
around 1630–1640
Ulm, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland
Sculpture: David Heschler
born Memmingen, Germany, 1611; died Ulm, Germany, 1667
Silver: Hans Rudolph Ulrich
born and died Switzerland, 1589-1667
boxwood, silver, gilded silver
Art of the Day
November 15, 2008
Last modified on November 22, 2008