Property of an Important European Collection
Royal. A German tureen from the Royal Saxon service of Frederick Augustus III, Christian Heinrich Rossbach, Dresden, date letter O, 1812
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Property of an Important European Collection
Royal. A German tureen from the Royal Saxon service of Frederick Augustus III
Christian Heinrich Rossbach, Dresden date letter O, 1812
Of circular bombé form, the domed covers and handles cast and chased with twisting leaves, bud finial, gilt interiors, the underside of the body engraved FA/3 and with scratchweight 9mr. 12. Lt. 3. q.—d., the cover engraved FA/3, the cover with a worn mark incorporating the letter M
26cm, 10 1/4 in over handles
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Ulli Arnold, Dresdner Hofsilber des 18 Jahrhunderts, Kulturstiftung de Länder-Patrimonia 74, Dresden, 1994 illus. 21 and 22 and p. 42
The cypher is that of Frederick Augustus III, 1750-1827, Elector of Saxony 1773-1806 and from 1806 until his death in 1827, King of Saxony.
Friedrich August Freiherr O’Byrn, In Die Hof-silberkammer und die Hof-Kellerei zu Dresden, Dresden 1880, lists 6 white silver services distinguished by their various electoral cyphers. This tureen was part of service no. 5 made (in the normal manner over a period of time) largely by Carl David Schrodel and Christian Heinrich Rossbach (master 1795 died 1830).