A SET OF THREE GERMAN SILVER-GILT SERVING DISHES AND COVERS

MAKER'S MARK OF CHRISTIAN DRENTWETT II, AUGSBURG, 1793/95

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A SET OF THREE GERMAN SILVER-GILT SERVING DISHES AND COVERS
Maker's mark of Christian Drentwett II, Augsburg, 1793/95
One dish shaped oval and two shaped circular, with laurel rims, the molded high domed covers with bud finials, the dishes and covers engraved with monogram W below an electoral bonnet, marked under dishes and on covers
The longest 11¾in. (30cm.); 132oz. (4111gr.) (3)

Sale room notice

The monogram W crowned is that of Wilhelm from the House of Wittelsbach (1752-1837), later Wilhelm in Bayern.

Lot Essay

The same initial W under a princely coronet appears on a set of twelve miniature candlesticks by Johann Peter Schonling, Frankfurt, circa 1740 (Christie's, New York, April 12, 1988, lot 70); a silver-gilt ewer and basin by Johann Martin Satzger, Augsburg, 1753/55 (Christie's, Geneva, November 11, 1986, lot 139); another, Augsburg, 1793, maker's mark IG (Sotheby Parke Bernet, Zurich, May 7, 1980, lot 196); a silver-gilt écuelle by Solomon Dreyer, Augsburg, 1751/53 (Christie's, New York, April 18, 1989, lot 254); and a soap-box by Christian Drentwett, Augsburg, 1795 (illustrated in Ein Rheinischer Silberschatz-Schmuck und Gerat aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, 1980. no. 61, p. 78).