Silver

Courtly wide-rimmed plate

Silver table barometer by Fabergé

Fabergé, Moscow 1899-1908

Silver, stamped Fabergé under double-headed eagle, initials K F, Moscow 1899-1908, 84 Zolotnik

Small aneroid for the desk. The circular inscription band with weather indication is written in Cyrillic script, has blued steel hands, and is connected to the measuring mechanism. The cover is made of crystal glass, the clock hand handle for setting the display value is set with a red garnet cabochon. The base of the barometer is decorated on the side with a classicist rosette frieze between entrelac bands above an acanthus border.

An aneroid measures the air pressure by the weight of the air pressing on several coupled, thin-walled, airless cans containing a spring. Depending on the air pressure, the cans are deformed to a greater or lesser extent and the tension is transferred to a hand. This type of barometer is particularly suitable for indoor use.

Height: 6 cm, diameter: 10.8 cm

We would like to thank Alexander von Solodkoff for his expertise.

Set of four candlesticks

from the property of Duke Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop of Cologne and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1723-1761)

Bautzen, around 1740, probably Johann Adolf Borns (1689-1760)

Silver, inspection mark Bautzen, around 1740, master's mark JB, assayer's mark (“Tremolierstich”).
All four candlesticks wear the armorial engraving of Elector Clemens August.

Upper Lusatia, with its old capital Bautzen, was home to the only united Catholic, mostly Sorbian settlements under Saxon rule. The Apostolic nuncio responsible for these Catholics living in the diaspora was based in Cologne after 1715, until another Apostolic Vicariate was established in Saxony in 1743.

Height: 14.5 cm, total weight: 822 g

Marc Rosenberg, “Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen”, 4 vols., Frankfurt a. M. 1922-1928, no. 1141 and 1145

Augsburg enamel bowl with Cupid cartouches

Attributed to Elias Adam (1669-1745, Master 1703), Augsburg 1708-1710

Silver, fire-gilt, with enamelled outer wall that is decorated with three cartouches depicting Cupid between fine floral tendrils on a red background.

Augsburg, and Elias Adam in particular, was famous for high-quality painting on enamel.

Numerous works of this type by Elias Adam have been preserved in important European collections.

Height: 5 cm, diameter: 6.5 cm

Helmut Seling, “Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede” 1529-1868, 3 vols, Munich 1980, BZ 165, MZ 1964, cf. also pic. 866-870

Important Nuremberg shell goblet

Simon Lang (1608-1671, master 1645), Nuremberg, around 1660

Silver, engraved and partially gilded, Nuremberg hallmark around 1660, master's mark SL.

The large shell-shaped goblet with fanned tongue is supported by a shaft in the shape of the goddess of victory Fortuna with a palm of victory, and a wreath on an oval, upward curved, and humped foot. A small putto, also standing on a sphere with a palm and a victory wreath, crowns the shell goblet, which is elaborately engraved on the outside with tulip, carnation, and rose blossoms.

Several almost identical examples of this model by the same master have been preserved: for example, in the collection of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, in the possession of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and one half this size in the Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt. It is likely that this model was created in connection with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Height: 41 cm Weight: 515 g

cf.: “Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg” vol. 1, part 2, in the Cologne City Museum, No. 646
CC BY-NC-SA @ Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt
Karin Tebbe, “Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst - Formtypen und stilistische Entwicklung”, within: “Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst”: 1541-1868, 2 vols, Nürnberg 2007, vol. II, p. 183 f.

Tobacco tin with enamel miniature

J. S. Magnin (1772–1812), Geneva, around 1790

Oval gold box, Geneva hallmark around 1790, master's mark J. S. Magnin & Cie, yellow gold with translucent and opaque enamel and a flat body with hinged lid.

Oval body circularly structured with translucent blue enamel on a needle etched background, the lid with an oval enamel miniature of a finely drawn love scene, is embedded in a blue background.

Height: 2.7 cm, diameter: 8.2 cm, weight: 125 g

Important Hamburg ceremonial tankard

Peter Ohr I. (1647-1662), Hamburg, around 1660

Partly gilt silver, Hamburg inspection mark from 1654-1674, and master's mark Peter Ohr I.

The cylindrical body is chased with a roundelay of playing cupids in half relief, framed by a frieze of naturalistic tulip and daffodil blossoms in flat relief on the base embossment and the lid, the latter is crowned by a small male figure (wineskin and grape lost), with a handle in Mannerist style. The later engraved helmet decoration with five ostrich feathers under the lip rim.

With his high-profile goldsmith work, Ohr was one of the most important North German masters in the second half of the 17th century. One of his most important commissions, a large table fountain for Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, is now in the armory of the Moscow Kremlin.

Height: 27.5 cm, weight: 1,607 g

Cf. Erich Schliemann ed., “Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs”, 3 vols., Hamburg 1985, MZ no. 36 I, 190, no. 262.
Carl Hernmarck, “The Art of the European Silversmith” 1430-1830, 2 vols., London 1977, vol. I, p. 122.

A pair of large English Rococo candlesticks

Master CB, London 1768

Silver, hallmark London 1768, master's mark C. B with star, and wooden core

Richly chased, floral, and rocaille decoration in half relief. These two candlesticks are probably the only two pieces that can be attributed to the so far unidentified London Master of Jackson.

Height: 31 cm

Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland, Woodbridge 1994, no. 57 and 212

Large centerpiece

Frankfurt 1892
Manufactory F. Schürmann

This large, powerful silver work is an extremely representative, upper-class table decoration for flowers or fruit.
This magnificent Art Nouveau silversmith work was created in Frankfurt by F. Schürmann and was made for the silver wedding anniversary of Baron Max of Guaita and his wife Sophie, née Leve.

The Guaita family was one of Frankfurt's most important banking families, appointed several mayors and local politicians of the city and were highly esteemed as patrons of the arts.

The family was extremely successful in Aachen and Frankfurt and achieved great wealth amongst others through trade, manufacturing, land ownership and bank holdings.
Their noble status was confirmed by Emperor Franz I in 1754.

Weight: 4300 g
Length: 47 cm, depth: 33 cm, height: 15 cm;

Pair of solid silver wall appliques

Rotterdam, 1770
by Rudolf Sondag (1726-1812)

Silver wall arms were made by various Dutch goldsmiths in the 18th century, in very rare cases even as an ensemble with a silver chandelier. The commissions were always extremely valuable and the circle of clients very small. The appliqués shown here were made by the most famous Rotterdam goldsmith of the 18th century.

Rudolf Sondag, who repeatedly came up with his own original designs, developed over the course of his life with works in the style from the opulent Rococo to the early Classicism of the second half of the 18th century. The wall panels are almost symmetrical, and the intertwined arms display a certain severeness. The two side arms end at the same height, giving the appliqués a strong monumentality.

Marked: Dutch lion, Rotterdam city mark, master's mark sun for Rudolf Sondag, year letter M (1770), guild stamp N (Rotterdam 1795).

Literature: Exhibition catalog Rococo in Nederland, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2001, cf. nos. 80, 85, 123.

Height: 55 cm, total weight 2952 g

A pair of silver wine coolers

London, 1813
William Elliott

The extremely high-quality, crater-shaped vessels from the Regency period are worked in heavy sterling silver with naturalistically modeled elements, some of them “en relief”, as well as fully sculpted in antique form as wine coolers. Horns of plenty with fruit serve as powerful handles and lush vine leaves with grapes decorate the garb.

On June 18, 1872, the vases were presented as a gift for the marriage of Prince Hermann of Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg to Countess Natalie of Benckendorff in Berlin. Duke of Hatzfeld was an important Prussian politician, civil servant and major general from Silesia. He was chairman of the New Faction of Big Landowners and a hereditary member of the Prussian House of Lords from 1878. His wife served as the Empress Frederick's Mistress of the Robes.

Natalie's older brother, Count Alexander von Benckendorff, was Russian ambassador in London and gave the vases to his sister as a wedding present.

Height: 32 cm, total weight 5100 g

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 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

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

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

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.

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.

A pair of Régence candlesticks

Augsburg, Johann Jakob Kohlern 1722-1726

Silver, cast, embossed and chased with Augsburg inspection and master’s mark Johann Jakob Kohlern.
A very beautifully executed pair of early baroque candlesticks, in which the fine engravings have been preserved in a very good condition and artfully alternate with embossed, relief ornaments and rich profiles.
Height 17.3 cm, weight 580 g.

Rare, extraordinary funnel cup

Nuremberg, Heinrich Mack 1612-1626

Silver, cast, chased and engraved, with the original gilding.
Marked with Nuremberg hallmark for 1609-1629, master’s mark Heinrich Mack (1581-1626, GNM no. bz13, 545) and assay line.
A finely structured shaft, supported by three delicate volute braces, rises above the curved, hunched foot. The funnel-shaped cup opens over two rows of offset humps into an eight-sided vessel, the walls of which are engraved with ornamental festoons, fruit decorations and insects.
Height 18.5 cm, weight 182 g.

Heavy, high quality silver jug

Liège 1784-1792

Silver, cast, chased and engraved with an elegantly curved, carved handle. Marked with Liège inspection for 1784-1792 and the additional stamp with the coat of arms of Prince-Bishop Caesar Constantin Franz von Hoensbroech (1724-1792, Prince-Bishop since 1784).
The extravagant, deeply bulbous shape of the jug looks very modern and is complemented by high-quality borders, garlands and rosettes.
The unusual lid knob in the form of an exotic fruit underlines the exquisite taste of the wealthy client.
Height 33 cm, weight 1415 g.
Rosenberg, “Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen”, vol. 4, p. 97.

Very large, classical samovar

Paris, Abel-Étienne Giroux 1809-1819

Silver, cast, driven and chased, with Parisian inspection for 925 silver and the master’s mark Abel-Étienne Giroux. On three ebonized wooden feet the urn-shaped heater, above the ovoid body with relief leaves and elegantly raised handles, the spout with ebonized wooden regulator, as a crown on the lid a naturalistic parrot. The precious execution of the large samovar in solid silver speaks for the high demands of the client.
Height 56 cm, weight approx. 2500 g.

Very rare, silver baroque box

Leipzig 1689-1691

Silver, cast, driven and chased with Leipzig inspection and other marks. Above the base, which is engraved with leaf ornaments, the body is decorated on all sides with splendid, detailed tulip and daffodil blossoms. The domed lid is framed by a corrugated band and crowned by a three-dimensional petal as a knob. Since the tulipomania had already reached its peak in the first half of the 17th century, this box was not used to store the valuable, sought-after flower bulbs. It was probably used as a sugar bowl or a confectionery bowl.
Height 13 cm, width 16 cm, depth 12 cm
weight approx. 580 g.