Lot 208
  • 208

Grande boîte à thé hexagonale en argent et vermeil par Simon Wickert, Augsbourg, vers 1695-1700

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Description

  • Grande boîte à thé hexagonale en argent et vermeil par Simon Wickert, Augsbourg, vers 1695-1700
  • Haut. 22 cm, 910 gr. ; 8 3/4 in, 29 oz 52 dwt
chaque pan gravé de rinceaux feuillagés et fleurs, le couvercle se vissant, la prise mobile, dans un écrin en noyer à la forme postérieur.



each face engraved with foliate strapwork, screw-off  cover with detachable  finial, in a later fitted wood box

Exhibited

Meisterwerke der Goldschmiedekunst, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Münich, 2004, p. 28-29, n° 13

Literature

Weltkunst, cahier 5, 1 mars 1985, p. 412m
Kunst und Antiquitäten, cahier 1, 1985, p. 100

Condition

In overall good condition. The edges gilding quite worn. Legible marks under the base and on cover. Nice quality of engraving.
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Catalogue Note

La base est également insculpée d'un poinçon non identifié, GIW dans un coeur.