MAKER'S MARK VASE OF THEODORUS GERARDUS BENTVELD, AMSTERDAM, 1838; MAKER'S MARK SPOONS OF JOHANNES FRIJHOFF, ROTTERDAM, 1830

細節

A Dutch silver sugar vase with twelve non-matching spoons
Maker's mark vase of Theodorus Gerardus Bentveld, Amsterdam, 1838; maker's mark spoons of Johannes Frijhoff, Rotterdam, 1830
The sugar vase on shaped circular domed foot in the neo-Gothic manner with engraved floral panels alternated by plain panels rising to a short knobbed stem, the high plain spreading bowl with two coiled serpent-shaped handles, the upper rim with twelve spoonholders, blue glass liner; the pointed finial spoons with beaded rim
16.5cm. high
marked on base, on reverse and on handles
552gr. (13)

注意事項

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

拍品專文

The Amsterdam silversmith T.G. Bentveld (1782-1853) was clearly influenced by late medieval liturgical vessels when he designed the present sugar vase. Although the bowl itself is shaped according to a more contemporary fashion, the eight lobed foot resembles the feet of late-Gothic chalices and monstrances. We find the same combination of Gothic and contemporary elements in a pair of chestnut vases in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which can be dated 1841. Here Bentveld combined an identical late-Gothic foot with an eight sided body, which he used from c. 1836 onwards and seems to have been his own invention. In the case of the chestnut vases Bentveld left the feet plain, the foot of the present vase is decorated with a biedermeier engraving. The sugar vase and the chestnut vases belong to the early examples of neo-Gothic influence in Dutch silver.

Comparative literature:
Lorm, Jan Rudoph de, Amsterdams Goud en Zilver Catalogue Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Zwolle, 1999, pp. 298, 300.

See illustration