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Lot 227
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Johann Friedrich Tihm the elder German silver toilet box and cover

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • silver
  • 14cm, 5.6in wide
hinged cover on four supports

Literature

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 137

Catalogue Note

Johann Friedrich Tihm I was born in 1700, and became a master goldsmith in 1728. He married twice, in 1728 and again in 1737, and died in April 1784.  His son, Johann Friedrich II, who was born in 1738, became a master goldsmith in 1774.