Travelling tea-set

Jacob Mores the Elder (ca. 1540–1612) was the founding father of a Hamburg dynasty of merchants and goldsmiths. The Mores family produced high-quality tableware from metal, as well as chalices, jewellery and centrepieces for a great number of European royal and princely houses. One of the studio’s successful items was a travelling tea-set. According to an inscription, these mobile “chests”, holding a pitcher, six plates, a bowl, a candle holder and a silver cloth, were produced for the Prince Elector of Saxony, the Duke of Holstein, the Bishop of Bremen and the Count of Schowenburg.