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MARK OF SALOMON DREYER, AUGSBURG, 1737-1739
Details
A German silver-gilt chocolate-pot
Mark of Salomon Dreyer, Augsburg, 1737-1739
Fluted pear-shaped and on spreading circular foor, with scroll wood handle and covered spout, the hinged domed cover with shell and scroll side thumbpiece and detachable ball finials, the body and cover chased with panels of diaperwork, scrolls, shells and husks on a matted ground, the body later engraved with a coat-of-arms with duke's coronet above, marked on base
10in. (25.5cm.) high
gross 21oz. (678gr.)
The arms are those of Sackville almost certainly for Charles, 5th and last Duke of Dorset K.G. (1767-1843).
Mark of Salomon Dreyer, Augsburg, 1737-1739
Fluted pear-shaped and on spreading circular foor, with scroll wood handle and covered spout, the hinged domed cover with shell and scroll side thumbpiece and detachable ball finials, the body and cover chased with panels of diaperwork, scrolls, shells and husks on a matted ground, the body later engraved with a coat-of-arms with duke's coronet above, marked on base
10in. (25.5cm.) high
gross 21oz. (678gr.)
The arms are those of Sackville almost certainly for Charles, 5th and last Duke of Dorset K.G. (1767-1843).
Provenance
Charles, 5th Duke of Dorset (1767-1843) and then by descent to his niece
Elizabeth Stopford (d.1908), wife of William Bruce Stopford (1806-1872), to whom she was married in 1837 and thence by descent to
Col. Stopford Sackville, Drayton, co. Northamptonshire
Palladio Stiftung; Christie's London, 26 June 1974, lot 104 (£7,000 to Spink)
Anonymous sale; Christie's Geneva, 27 April 1976, lot 292
Elizabeth Stopford (d.1908), wife of William Bruce Stopford (1806-1872), to whom she was married in 1837 and thence by descent to
Col. Stopford Sackville, Drayton, co. Northamptonshire
Palladio Stiftung; Christie's London, 26 June 1974, lot 104 (£7,000 to Spink)
Anonymous sale; Christie's Geneva, 27 April 1976, lot 292
Exhibited
Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, 15 March 1969 - 15 March 1970
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium