Renaissance lid humps of Johann Wolfgang Freymann Silver, gold plated. On profiled stand ring of conical body with volutehenkel. The smooth wall with a horizontal profile band between finely engraved tailwork. The slightly arched hinge lid with corresponding decoration, on the apex a lofty medallion with the engraved coat of arms of Johann Wolfgang Freymann v. Hohen-Randeck (1546 - 1610), dated 1594. About a probably later engraved owner monogram 'VZ'. Unmarketed. H 10.5 cm, weight 214 g. Southern Germany, dated 1594. Johann Wolfgang Freymann v. Hohen-Randeck was born in Ingolstadt in 1546. After studying law and obtaining his doctorate in 1571, he worked, among other things, at the Duke's High Court of Straubing, from 1575 to 1575, as a regiment councillor in Burghausen and from 1581 to 1581 as a referendary of the Imperial Court Council. In 1586 he acquired Schloss Mühlfeld am Ammersee. From 1594 to 1597 Freymann was Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire under Emperor Rudolf II and was awarded Randeck-Neussing at Kelheim in 1596, where he died in 1610. ==References== ==References== https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/jancke-quellenkunde/verzeichnis/f/freymann/index.html Provenance: Galerie J. Ball, Paris; Hamburg private collection. Literature: See a Humpen with portrait medallions in the Overzier Collection, illustrated in Kat. German Silver 1550 - 1850, Munich 1987, No. 13.