Lot Essay
A beaker and cover with a very similar finial also by Johann Diedrich Rehwald is illustrated in C. Ehrnrooth, Baltic Silver, Helsinki, 1991, p. 190, no. 143.
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MARK OF JOHANN DIEDRICH REHWALD, RIGA, CIRCA 1768
Details
A Baltic parcel-gilt beaker and cover
Mark of Johann Diedrich Rehwald, Riga, circa 1768
Trumpet shaped and on fluted silver-gilt foot, the base inset with a Bavarian thaler dated 1761, the detachable cover chased with a band of strapwork and with fluted ball finial, the gilt rim engraved with inscription, marked on rim and cover
24.5 cm. high
513 gr.
The inscription reads 'Maria Griesinger: Wittibe = Urbahn: 1768:'
Mark of Johann Diedrich Rehwald, Riga, circa 1768
Trumpet shaped and on fluted silver-gilt foot, the base inset with a Bavarian thaler dated 1761, the detachable cover chased with a band of strapwork and with fluted ball finial, the gilt rim engraved with inscription, marked on rim and cover
24.5 cm. high
513 gr.
The inscription reads 'Maria Griesinger: Wittibe = Urbahn: 1768:'
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 71
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