MAKER'S MARK OF JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUSS, AUGSBURG, 1783/85

细节

A GERMAN SILVER WINE COOLER
Maker's mark of Johann Christian Neuss, Augsburg, 1783/85
Vase-shaped, on spreading circular foot, with neoclassical decoration, the lower part of the body chased with vertical palm foliage, the upper part with four applied patterae with chased trellis, scalework and foliage between, with scroll double handles, pricked with Russian inventory numbers, marked on base
9¼in. (23.5cm.) high; 64oz. (2000gr.)

拍品专文

A pair of identical wine coolers from the same set, also with Russian inventory numbers, sold at Christie's, Geneva, May 19, 1997, lot 76. The pair had a Russian provenance and is thought have come from the Hermitage. Baron A. de Foelkersam, in his Inventaire de l'argenterie des Palais Impériaux, St. Petersburg, 1907, vol. II, p.154, records a German silver service at the Hermitage with the pieces by J.C. Neuss, although these wine coolers are not specifically described.
Another example by the same maker is illustrated in Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, London, 1986, fig. 225.