"2021-02-10T00:00:00"^^ . "The goldsmith designed this innovative, even forward-looking, vessel to serve mulled wine, a popular spiced drink. The beverage was prepared by placing spices on the slightly funnel-shaped filter of the decanter and then pouring hot wine over them. The inscriptions on the medallions applied to either side of the flattened round body may refer to two weddings. One inscription, G. BETHLEN GERGELY/G. KENDEFFI RACHEL/1779, may mark the union of the decanter\u2019s recipients; the other inscription, B\u00C1NFI SUSANNA/KENDEFI G\u00C1BOR/A O 1742, perhaps records the marriage of the bride\u2019s parents. There is a discrepancy between the goldsmith\u2019s presumed death in 1772 and the applied date of 1779. It is possible that the guild allowed the master\u2019s widow to continue his workshop after his death as was often the case.LiteratureCatalogue of Fine European Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby\u2019s, Geneva, November 10, 1981, p. 68, no. 172.Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 120, no. 97.ExhibitedR\u00E9gi ez\u00FCstki\u00E1ll\u00EDt\u00E1s\u00E1nak le\u00EDr\u00F3 lajstroma. Exh. cat. edited by K\u00E1roly Cs\u00E1nyi. Orsz\u00E1gos Magyar Iparm\u0171v\u00E9szeti M\u00FAzeum. Budapest, 1927, pp. 46\u201347, no. 375.Erd\u00E9ly r\u00E9gi m\u0171v\u00E9szeti eml\u00E9keinek ki\u00E1ll\u00EDt\u00E1sa az Iparm\u0171v\u00E9szeti m\u00FAzeumban / Ausstellung alten Kunstgewerbes aus Siebenb\u00FCrgen. Exh. cat. Orsz\u00E1gos Magyar Iparm\u0171v\u00E9szeti M\u00FAzeum. Budapest, 1931, p. 24, no. 88.ReferencesElem\u00E9r K\u0151szeghy. Magyarorsz\u00E1gi \u00F6tv\u00F6sjegyek a k\u00F6z\u00E9pkort\u00F3l 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, nos. 982 [town mark], 1005 [maker\u2019s mark].A similar decanter is owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein (see Johann Kr\u00E4ftner, ed., Der F\u00FCrst als Sammler: Neuerwerbungen unter Hans-Adam II. von und zu Liechtenstein. Vienna, 2010, pp. 144\u2013145, no. 57).[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]"@en . . .