MARK OF DIEDERIK LODEWIJK BENNEWITZ, AMSTERDAM, 1806

Details

A pair of Dutch silver sauce-boats on stands
Mark of Diederik Lodewijk Bennewitz, Amsterdam, 1806
Each boat-shaped on oval stepped footrim rising to a stem with gadrooned knob, plain body with angular handle, navette-shaped stand with everted border, reeded rims, stand and body engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on bases
20 cm. high (sauce-boat)
1352 gr.
The arms are those of Van Hardenbroek (4)

Provenance

With van Ravenstein, Haarlem, 1989.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For a pair of later comparable sauce-boats with different stands see: B.J. van Benthem, De werkmeesters van Bennewitz en Bonebakker, Amsterdams grootzilver uit de 1e helft van de 19e eeuw, Zwolle, 2005, p. 289, nr. 322, illustrated.

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