A CONTINENTAL SILVER EWER

POSSIBLY BALTIC, CIRCA 1750, MAKER'S MARK IB OVER D

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A CONTINENTAL SILVER EWER
POSSIBLY BALTIC, CIRCA 1750, MAKER'S MARK IB OVER D
The shaped oval ewer on partly fluted domed foot with shell, scroll and foliage border, with baluster knop, the lower part of the body chased with four shells, the upper part finely chased with a coat-of-arms beneath coronet within rococo cartouche, spouting dolphins and scrolling foliage, all on matted ground, the short covered spout chased with foliage and fluting and cast with rocaille ornament, the domed cover with applied openwork scroll and foliage and two spouting dolphins, the finial formed as water cascading from a shell, with harp-shaped handle, maker's mark struck twice on foot rim
28 cm. (11 in.) high
1116 gr. (35 oz.)

Provenance

Reputed to have been in the Collections of the Dukes of Mecklenburg

Lot Essay

The coat-of-arms is that of Otto Friedrich von Bruemmer, Oberhofsmarshall, born in 1690 in Waikull, Estonia, and died in Wismar in 1752. In 1721, he accompanied the Duke Karl-Friedrich von Holstein-Gottorp to Russia. In 1726, he became Chamberlain in Kiel and, in 1742, tutor of Prince Karl Peter Ulrich.

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