Important Rothschild family French silver presentation plate by Maurice Mayer

This is a rare German silver kiddush cup that was made in Hochhausen (Tauberbischofsheim) or In the area, the marks on the cup relate to German silver in the 18th century, there Is a loth 13 silver mark which is 812,5 silver fineness. A Jewish Community in Hochhausen has been known since the 17th century. In 1706, four Jews from Hochhausen were named, each of whom had to pay ten Guilders for protection money. The Jewish Community in Hochhausen owned a synagogue, a Jewish school, The Jewish cemetery in Hochhausen and a ritual bath, which adjoined the Property at Mühlenwörth 7. The bathing house that was probably there was about 3 m by 4 m and got the water of the Tauber via a small canal from the Mühlkanal. The ritual bath came into the possession of the mill around 1920 and was Probably filled in at the time. A separate religious education teacher was Employed, who also worked as prayer leader and schochet. In 1827 the Jewish Community in Hochhausen was assigned to the district rabbinate of Wertheim, Which temporarily had its seat in the Jewish Community of Tauberbischofsheim From 1850 to 1864. The cup is adorned with an amazing engraving in old German style says : Familie Rothschild Hochhausen We can see that the family member that ordered this cup from a silversmith was Proud in his family name as he asked it to be engraved in such bold germanic Style letters. The font type is Fraktur it is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of Several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. Letters are designed such That the individual strokes are broken apart; in this way it is often contrasted with The curves of the Antiqua (common) typefaces where the letters are designed to Flow and strokes connect together in a continuous fashion. The first Fraktur typeface arose in the early 16th century, when Emperor Maximilian I commissioned the design of the Triumphal Arch woodcut by Albrecht Dürer and had a new typeface created specifically for this purpose, designed by Hieronymus Andreae. The Rothschild family...

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