Lot Essay
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds a near identical écuelle with cover and stand by (Johann) Daniel Schäffler I dated 1723-1727 (Acc. No. 1974.356.738a,b).
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MARK OF (JOHANN) DANIEL I SCHAFFLER, AUGSBURG, 1725
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A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-GILT ECUELLES, COVERS AND STANDS
MARK OF (JOHANN) DANIEL I SCHAFFLER, AUGSBURG, 1725
In the French Régence style, engraved with a frieze of scrolls and trelliswork on matted ground and applied with medallions figuring allegories of geography and mathematics on the bodies and allegory of love on the cover and the handles, the cover applied in the center with a medallion depicting Hercules and the dragon Ladon and with four dolphin-shaped resting scrolls, one stand later engraved with initials W.T.Q., each marked on underside of stand, body and border of cover, one with later Austro-Hungarian control marks for Vienna, 1806
9 1⁄16 in. (23 cm.) diameter, the stands
61 oz. 6dwt. (1,908 gr.)
MARK OF (JOHANN) DANIEL I SCHAFFLER, AUGSBURG, 1725
In the French Régence style, engraved with a frieze of scrolls and trelliswork on matted ground and applied with medallions figuring allegories of geography and mathematics on the bodies and allegory of love on the cover and the handles, the cover applied in the center with a medallion depicting Hercules and the dragon Ladon and with four dolphin-shaped resting scrolls, one stand later engraved with initials W.T.Q., each marked on underside of stand, body and border of cover, one with later Austro-Hungarian control marks for Vienna, 1806
9 1⁄16 in. (23 cm.) diameter, the stands
61 oz. 6dwt. (1,908 gr.)
Provenance
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
By descent to the present owners.