DUTCH OR POSSIBLY FRENCH, MID 17TH CENTURY, APPARENTLY UNMARKED EXCEPT FOR AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY AUSTRIAN CONTROL MARK

Details

A Continental silver embossed plaquette
Dutch or possibly French, mid 17th Century, apparently unmarked except for an early 19th Century Austrian control mark
Circular, repoussé and chased with Venus and putti presenting a shield to Aeneas in a woodland setting
12 cm. (4¾ in.) diam.
72 gr. (2 oz.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1982, lot 70 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. G-76).

Special notice

Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 20.825% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €90,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €90,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 20.825% of the first €90,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €90,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually.

Lot Essay

The print source for this plaquette is an engraving by Gerard de Lairesse (Le Blanc II, 41). The same print source was used for a fine engraved table top in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (illustrated by J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, The Hague, 1960, vol. III, no. 439). Frederiks considered the table top to be Dutch but it may well be French.

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