View full screen - View 1 of Lot 52. A set of four German silver wine coolers, Johann Heinrich Stolzheise, Bückeburg, after a design by Count Ernst zu Münster, circa 1815.

A set of four German silver wine coolers, Johann Heinrich Stolzheise, Bückeburg, after a design by Count Ernst zu Münster, circa 1815

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November 4, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 EUR

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Description

on tri-form bases engraved with a coat-of-arms, the bodies modelled as buckets on three thyrsi entwined with fruiting vine ornament, surmounted by bunches of grapes, numbered inside and with metal plates at the bases, marked on the base with town and maker's mark


38cm. 15in. high

17,770gr., 571¼oz total

Count Ernst Friedrich Herbert zu Münster (1766-1839) and his wife Wilhelmine von Schaumburg-Lippe, whom he married in 1814, to their son;

Count Georg Herbert zu Münster (1820-1902);

S.J. Phillips, London, 1996;

Sotheby's, New York, Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, 18-21 October 2011, lot 839