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SILVER
Courtly wide-rimmed plate
Video: wide rim plate
Duke Christian of Saxony-Eisenberg
A pair of very high quality, solid silver wine coolers
London, 1813, with Master's mark "WE" for William Elliot
Crater-shaped wine coolers with the alliance coat of arms of the princely family of Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg and of Benckendorff.
Sterling silver, together 5100 grams
Height approx. 32 cm
Lit.: "Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks", page 231
Crater-shaped wine coolers with the alliance coat of arms of the princely family of Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg and of Benckendorff.
Sterling silver, together 5100 grams
Height approx. 32 cm
Lit.: "Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks", page 231
Nuremberg columbine goblet
Marked Philpp Plapert, 1643-1646, silver, partly fire-gilded
Silver, gilded columbine goblet, fourfold designed with six humps on the lid, the dome, and the foot. A large Schmeck decorates the masterly Nuremberg silversmith's work as a crowning.
Today, Plapert's particularly high-quality hump goblets are in various public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and the Museo Palazzo Venezia in Rome.
BZ Nuremberg for 1643-1646, MZ Philipp Plapert (1637-1665) GNM no. BZ17, 655);
Height: 34 cm, weight: 294 g
Silver, gilded columbine goblet, fourfold designed with six humps on the lid, the dome, and the foot. A large Schmeck decorates the masterly Nuremberg silversmith's work as a crowning.
Today, Plapert's particularly high-quality hump goblets are in various public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and the Museo Palazzo Venezia in Rome.
BZ Nuremberg for 1643-1646, MZ Philipp Plapert (1637-1665) GNM no. BZ17, 655);
Height: 34 cm, weight: 294 g
Silver tureen
Partly fire-gilded, marked Augsburg, around 1763-1765, by Gottfried Bartermann
This unusually richly decorated tureen, a late work by the famous Gottfried Bartermann (approx. 1705-1769), is a top product of Augsburg silversmithing of the Rococo period. In Succession of the most important Parisian goldsmiths, such as Thomas Germain, Bartermann has decorated the lid with lifelike vegetables such as asparagus, cabbage and celery root, crowned by an artichoke; a string of strawberries forms a particularly original motif. The large cartouche, spreading on both sides over the body and the lid, shows a turnip and other vegetables in the center. Besides centerpieces, tureens were the most important showpieces of a representatively set festive table. The sporadic fully plastic vegetables possibly indicate the ingredients of the dish prepared in the tureen.
Helmut Seling has written about this piece: "We know a whole series of tureens by Gottfried Bartermann, which consistently document his masterly skills. Among them is this oval tureen, made between 1763 and 1765, whose successfully produced shape forms a unity with the decoration."
Literature: Helmut Seling, "Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868", Munich 1980, vol. I, p. 164; vol. II, fig. 736
Height: approx. 36 cm, width: 50 cm, weight: approx. 4630 g
This unusually richly decorated tureen, a late work by the famous Gottfried Bartermann (approx. 1705-1769), is a top product of Augsburg silversmithing of the Rococo period. In Succession of the most important Parisian goldsmiths, such as Thomas Germain, Bartermann has decorated the lid with lifelike vegetables such as asparagus, cabbage and celery root, crowned by an artichoke; a string of strawberries forms a particularly original motif. The large cartouche, spreading on both sides over the body and the lid, shows a turnip and other vegetables in the center. Besides centerpieces, tureens were the most important showpieces of a representatively set festive table. The sporadic fully plastic vegetables possibly indicate the ingredients of the dish prepared in the tureen.
Helmut Seling has written about this piece: "We know a whole series of tureens by Gottfried Bartermann, which consistently document his masterly skills. Among them is this oval tureen, made between 1763 and 1765, whose successfully produced shape forms a unity with the decoration."
Literature: Helmut Seling, "Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868", Munich 1980, vol. I, p. 164; vol. II, fig. 736
Height: approx. 36 cm, width: 50 cm, weight: approx. 4630 g
Silver tureen with saucer
Gilded inside, marked Augsburg, around 1779-1781, by Gustav Friedrich Gerich
The elegant tureen shows the transition from Rococo to Early Classicism in Augsburg silver in a captivating manner. Although the handles of the tureen are still late Baroque in vegetal design, the remaining decorative motifs are largely classically formed. The garland hanging from the knob formed as a vase is furthermore playfully twisted.
In the Residenz in Munich, there are tureens delivered to the Bavarian court by several Augsburg silversmiths around 1771, which illustrate a somewhat earlier phase of the same stylistic change.
Height: ca. 33 cm, width: ca. 36 cm
Weight: approx. 3745 g
The elegant tureen shows the transition from Rococo to Early Classicism in Augsburg silver in a captivating manner. Although the handles of the tureen are still late Baroque in vegetal design, the remaining decorative motifs are largely classically formed. The garland hanging from the knob formed as a vase is furthermore playfully twisted.
In the Residenz in Munich, there are tureens delivered to the Bavarian court by several Augsburg silversmiths around 1771, which illustrate a somewhat earlier phase of the same stylistic change.
Height: ca. 33 cm, width: ca. 36 cm
Weight: approx. 3745 g
Pair of Augsburg silver candlesticks
Augsburg, by Peter Kick (1672-1721), around 1711-1715
The rich Régence ornamentation, influenced by French models, is what makes these powerful candlesticks so appealing.
The candlesticks are illustrated in Helmut Seling, “Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede”, Munich 1980, vol. II, fig. 813.
Silver, cast, chased, chased, and engraved.
Height 21 cm, weight approx. 825 g
The rich Régence ornamentation, influenced by French models, is what makes these powerful candlesticks so appealing.
The candlesticks are illustrated in Helmut Seling, “Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede”, Munich 1980, vol. II, fig. 813.
Silver, cast, chased, chased, and engraved.
Height 21 cm, weight approx. 825 g
Nuremberg Diamond Buckbeaker
Michael Müllner 1609-1629
Silver gilt, the conical cup with profiled lip rim stands on a narrow stand ring. The wall is decorated with chased diamond bosses which taper downwards to match the cup. On the underside of the cup is the Nuremberg city hallmark, the master's mark and the tremolo line.
Other works by Michael Müllner have survived in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm and in the Oetker Collection. In the early 17th century, the workshop of Michael Müllner and Hans Petzold enjoyed a high reputation for the production of elaborate hump cups.
Lit.: Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868, GNM 2007.
Height 11 cm,
Weight 173 g
Silver gilt, the conical cup with profiled lip rim stands on a narrow stand ring. The wall is decorated with chased diamond bosses which taper downwards to match the cup. On the underside of the cup is the Nuremberg city hallmark, the master's mark and the tremolo line.
Other works by Michael Müllner have survived in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm and in the Oetker Collection. In the early 17th century, the workshop of Michael Müllner and Hans Petzold enjoyed a high reputation for the production of elaborate hump cups.
Lit.: Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868, GNM 2007.
Height 11 cm,
Weight 173 g
Large Classiclst Pair of Tureens of Duke Friedrich August of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Oels
Wroclaw, Tobias Meyer and Gottlieb Benjamin Vogtmann, 1792
The imposing pair of silver tureens stands on the original presentoires. Both tureens have
preserved the original interior gilding. The pair was commissioned by Duke Friedrich August of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Oels in 1792 and made in Breslau by Tobias Meyer and Gottlieb Benjamin Vogtmann.
Duke Friedrich August married Friederike Sophie, Princess of Württemberg-Oels, in 1768 and was enfeoffed with the Lower Silesian Duchies of Oels and Bernstadt in 1792 after the death of his father-in-law.
A single additional tureen from the workshop has been preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
Hallmarks on all parts (Hintze Breslau, Hallmark. No. 22, year letter K, master's marks No. 173 and 175).
Lit. Hintze, Die Breslauer Goldschmiede, 1906, plate V, no. 173 and 175.
50 x 42 x 32 cm,
weight approx. 11400 gr
The imposing pair of silver tureens stands on the original presentoires. Both tureens have
preserved the original interior gilding. The pair was commissioned by Duke Friedrich August of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Oels in 1792 and made in Breslau by Tobias Meyer and Gottlieb Benjamin Vogtmann.
Duke Friedrich August married Friederike Sophie, Princess of Württemberg-Oels, in 1768 and was enfeoffed with the Lower Silesian Duchies of Oels and Bernstadt in 1792 after the death of his father-in-law.
A single additional tureen from the workshop has been preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
Hallmarks on all parts (Hintze Breslau, Hallmark. No. 22, year letter K, master's marks No. 173 and 175).
Lit. Hintze, Die Breslauer Goldschmiede, 1906, plate V, no. 173 and 175.
50 x 42 x 32 cm,
weight approx. 11400 gr
Silver tureen
George Ill, London 1785/86
Silver, chased, drawn, chased and engraved with coat of arms in front of ermine drapery.
The silver tureen was made in London in 1785 as a tapered shaft with a wide body and fluted raised lid, ring and vase finial over an oval stand. The two raised ribbon handles form a special eye-catcher next to the engraved coat of arms.
Hallmarked with a lion. MZ: Jas. Young, first mentioned in 1760.
Lit. Jackson's Silver & Gold marks, 1905, p. 217.
Height 30, 50m, width 50 cm, depth 25 cm,
Weight 3386 g
Silver, chased, drawn, chased and engraved with coat of arms in front of ermine drapery.
The silver tureen was made in London in 1785 as a tapered shaft with a wide body and fluted raised lid, ring and vase finial over an oval stand. The two raised ribbon handles form a special eye-catcher next to the engraved coat of arms.
Hallmarked with a lion. MZ: Jas. Young, first mentioned in 1760.
Lit. Jackson's Silver & Gold marks, 1905, p. 217.
Height 30, 50m, width 50 cm, depth 25 cm,
Weight 3386 g
Large Pair of Silver Jugs
Augsburg 1791 -93
Two extreme high quality, classicistic silver jugs. Wrought, cast, chased, hallmarked and mounted, with original interior gilding and ebonised handles. From Southern German nobility.
MZ: CGS for Christian Gottlieb Il Schuhmann (1757-1794, master from 1784).
Another pair of jugs by the master has survived in Wittelsbach possession and is in the silver chamber of the Munich Residenz.
Lit. cf. BZ: Seling III, no. 276 and 2601.
Height 34 cm and 26 cm,
Weight 1021 g and 527 g.
Two extreme high quality, classicistic silver jugs. Wrought, cast, chased, hallmarked and mounted, with original interior gilding and ebonised handles. From Southern German nobility.
MZ: CGS for Christian Gottlieb Il Schuhmann (1757-1794, master from 1784).
Another pair of jugs by the master has survived in Wittelsbach possession and is in the silver chamber of the Munich Residenz.
Lit. cf. BZ: Seling III, no. 276 and 2601.
Height 34 cm and 26 cm,
Weight 1021 g and 527 g.
Early basin beater bowl
Nuremberg, around 1450
The powerfully chased brass cymbal beater's bowl shows four shield-holding angels between humped petals.
Cymbal beater bowls were a sought-after product of the brass guild in Nuremberg and were valued as holy water and baptismal font bowls, as well as alms bowls.
They were sold throughout Europe via the known trade routes. Early works like this plate shown have survived very rarely.
Lit. Tamäs Egyeki-Szabö, Cymbal beater keys 2008.
Diameter 41 cm.
The powerfully chased brass cymbal beater's bowl shows four shield-holding angels between humped petals.
Cymbal beater bowls were a sought-after product of the brass guild in Nuremberg and were valued as holy water and baptismal font bowls, as well as alms bowls.
They were sold throughout Europe via the known trade routes. Early works like this plate shown have survived very rarely.
Lit. Tamäs Egyeki-Szabö, Cymbal beater keys 2008.
Diameter 41 cm.
Coin cup
Berlin, Joachim II Hübener, around 1750
Silver; partielly gilded. Conical cup with flared lip rim on indented foot.
The wall with flat chased Ieaf scallops and latticework between 18 Brandenburg and Polish coins, mainly of the 16th century.
Marks: BZ Berlin c. 1737 - 57, MZ Joachim Hübener II (1737 — 80), tremolo engraving.
The production of such coin cups was always particularly precious because solid silver coins were worked into the wall and thus became part of the decoration of the cup.
Another coin cup by the master has survived in a private collection in Berlin.
Lit. Cf. Scheffler Berlin, no. 5, tig. 10.
Height 10.5 cm,
weight 159 g.
Silver; partielly gilded. Conical cup with flared lip rim on indented foot.
The wall with flat chased Ieaf scallops and latticework between 18 Brandenburg and Polish coins, mainly of the 16th century.
Marks: BZ Berlin c. 1737 - 57, MZ Joachim Hübener II (1737 — 80), tremolo engraving.
The production of such coin cups was always particularly precious because solid silver coins were worked into the wall and thus became part of the decoration of the cup.
Another coin cup by the master has survived in a private collection in Berlin.
Lit. Cf. Scheffler Berlin, no. 5, tig. 10.
Height 10.5 cm,
weight 159 g.
Rare set of three Augsburg pitchers
Augsburg, Johann Heinrich Busch, 1807 to 1810
Silver, chased, cast, chased and gilded on the inside. Consisting of large coffee pot, hot milk pot and tea pot.
Marked with the BZ: Augsburg 1807/08 and 1809/10‚ MZ: Johann Heinrich Busch (1807-1810).
The vase-shaped pots with curved spouts and elaborately carved wooden handles are decorated with lush floral borders on their robes and are executed in very high quality.
A tureen by Johann Heinrich Busch is in the silver chamber of the Munich Residenz.
Lit. Seling Ill, No. 2940, 2960, 2662.
Height coffee pot 34 cm,
Height of hot milk jug 25 cm,
height of teapot 20 cm.
Total weight 2598 g.
Silver, chased, cast, chased and gilded on the inside. Consisting of large coffee pot, hot milk pot and tea pot.
Marked with the BZ: Augsburg 1807/08 and 1809/10‚ MZ: Johann Heinrich Busch (1807-1810).
The vase-shaped pots with curved spouts and elaborately carved wooden handles are decorated with lush floral borders on their robes and are executed in very high quality.
A tureen by Johann Heinrich Busch is in the silver chamber of the Munich Residenz.
Lit. Seling Ill, No. 2940, 2960, 2662.
Height coffee pot 34 cm,
Height of hot milk jug 25 cm,
height of teapot 20 cm.
Total weight 2598 g.
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