AN IMPORTANT OVAL TUREEN AND COVER ON STAND

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AN IMPORTANT OVAL TUREEN AND COVER ON STAND
by Engelbart Joosten (Voet 134), The Hague, 1768

On four moulded foliate branch feet, continued with foliage around the upper and lower rim, the plain body engraved with a coat-of-arms and on each side with conforming handles, the plain tented and domed cover applied with conforming foliate decoration and finial, the shaped oval tray with plain sunken centre bordered with moulded foliate rim and handles
the tureen 40.25cm long (3420gr)
the stand 46.25cm long (1620gr)
(total weight (5040gr)

The coat-of-arms are those of Neukirchen-Nijvenheim, and of a later date

Literature

J.W. Frederiks, Dutch silver, The Hague, 1958, no. 535, plate 267

Exhibited

Het Blazoen, Delft, 1954, no. 188

L'Argenterie des Pays Bas XVIIe - XVIIIe siecles, Paris, 16 November - 18 December 1962, page 64, with illustration

Haags zilver uit vijf eeuwen, The Hague, 20 June - 27 August 1967, no. 265, with illustration

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Lot Essay

Engelbart Joosten was born in 1717. He became a member of The Hague's silversmiths guild in 1755, and died in 1789. He was one of the finest silversmiths of The Hague, who largely worked in the Louis XV style. His objects are most often recognizable through the quality of ornamentation

This tureen is one of a set of three, one large and two smaller. The larger tureen of the set is preserved in the collection of The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. One of the smaller is in the collection of The Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, which, also bearing the coat-of-arms of Neukirchen-Nijvenheim, forms a pair with the present lot

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