An unusual German parcel-gilt silver coffee pot, maker's mark double struck including CCG, I and S?, Augsburg 1817
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May 17, 03:14 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An unusual German parcel-gilt silver coffee pot
maker's mark double struck including CCG, I and S?, Augsburg 1817
Inverted pear form with acanthus border, the spout cast as a water nymph supporting a fish above her head, the cover with hexagonal pagoda gallery above a central urn, plain ivory handle, later Dutch control mark.
24cm.; 9 1/2in. high
760gr.; 24oz. 10dwt.
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The Pinkus family collection, Neustadt-Oberschlesien.
Otto F. Ernst, Gold-und Silberschmiedearbeiten 15 -19. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden, 1969, p. 13, no. 49.
The maker's mark is double struck and unidentifiable. Similar coffee pots were marked in Augsburg at the time by a number of goldsmiths, who appear to have shared the same outworkers making it impossible to ascribe the complete making of the piece to any one person. See for example a coffee pot, Christian Friedrich Temmler and a similar example with the marks of Johann George Kröner which have identical cast spouts (Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 2018, lot 112 and Auktionshaus Bossard, Chemnitz, 8 September 2018, lot 1399)