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Lot 172
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maker's mark probably JFC attributed to Johann Friedrich Canzler II German silver-gilt sweetmeat stand

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • silver
  • 22.2cm, 8 3/4in wide
shaped oval, chased with bees hovering between flowering and fruiting plants springing from rococo borders, on four panel supports

Provenance

Galerie Almas, Munich

Exhibited

A magyar törteneti, ötvösmu-kiallitas lajstroma, exhibition catalogue, Budapest museum, 1884, p. 32.
The Grand Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition presented by La Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art, October 19, 1974-January 5, 1975, fig. 265

Literature

Exh. Cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, 2004, no. 184A  where the maker has been attributed to Canzler

Catalogue Note

Johann Friedrich Canzler II trained in the workshop of his father, Johann Friedrich Canzler I. He became a master goldsmith in 1766 and was on the Munich goldsmiths’ guild committee from 1782 to 1784.  He died on 10 May 1799.