Lot Essay
Purchased in the Soviet Union in the 1920's by the the present owner's father and reputed to have come from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Baron A. de Foelkersam Inventaire de l'argenterie des Palais Impériaux, St. Petersburg, 1907, p. 154 records a service including pieces by Neuss but with apparently different wine-coolers.
V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, Londres, 1886, fig.225, illustrates a similar example by the same maker, 1783-1785.
V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, Londres, 1886, fig.225, illustrates a similar example by the same maker, 1783-1785.