TWO SIMILAR AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER MODELS OF PEACOCKS, 18TH CENTURY
Lot Closed
September 9, 02:35 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
TWO SIMILAR AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER MODELS OF PEACOCKS, 18TH CENTURY
with detachable heads, well-modelled bodies cast and chased with elaborate feathers, the bases chased with baroque scrolling foliage, one with standard 12 and St George maker’s mark, the other with pseudo Augsburg marks and 1809/10 Austrian free of tax mark
25cm., 10in.; 22cm. 8½in. wide
ASSOCIATED LITERATURE
Judith H Kolba, Hungarian silver, The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection, London, 1996, p. 122, 123
To view Shipping Calculator, please click here
Three Peacocks of this type were sold Sothebys, London, 8 December 1983, lots 91-93, from the collection of Paul Wallraf. They had 1787 Hungarian marks for Munkács, (Mukachevo) a Transylvanian town which became part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the mid-18th century. Another was sold Sothebys 28 January 2014 lot 116. This had town mark for Brody (1787-1806), which like Munkács is now in the Western Ukraine.