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Maker's mark a leaping stag Dutch silver sweetmeat basket
Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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Description
- silver
- 9.8cm, 3 7/8 in wide
pierced border, drop handles, gilt interior, later engraved on either side with a monogram below an earl’s coronet, also with 1795-1806 Rotterdam control mark
Provenance
P.Brandt, Amsterdam, October 1996
Broker Van Groeningen, Amsterdam
Charles van der Heyden, Rotterdam
Broker Van Groeningen, Amsterdam
Charles van der Heyden, Rotterdam
Exhibited
Zilverschatten, drie eeuwen Rotterdams zilver, exhibition catalogue, Historisch Museum der Stad Rotterdam, 1991, cat. 123
Literature
Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 118
Catalogue Note
The unidentified goldsmith with the leaping stag mark, is recorded in Rotterdam between 1735 and 1753 see: Karel Citroen, Dutch Goldsmiths' and Silversmiths' Marks and Names, Leiden, 1993, p. 131