MARK OF CHRISTIAN LEO, KONIGSBERG, 1743

Details

A GERMAN SILVER-GILT ZOOMORPHIC SNUFF-BOX
MARK OF CHRISTIAN LEO, KONIGSBERG, 1743
Realistically formed and chased as a recumbent lion, the molded rim applied with scroll thumbpiece, marked on the rim
3 ½ in. (9 cm.)
6 oz. 11 dwt. (204 gr.)

Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Literature

M. Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen (Band 2): Deutschland D - M, Frankfurt a.M., 1923, p. 218, No. 2879 and 2881.

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Lot Essay

Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, was the capital of East Prussia and, until 1945, the most northern and eastern major city in Germany. This distance from the center of Germany makes it unsurprising that the city developed a style, inspired by or inspiring its trading partners in the Hanseatic League, which Königsberg had joined in 1340.

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