European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

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A Set of Twelve German Silver Dinner Plates, Adolf Carl Holm (7) and Johann Conrad Lotter (5), Augsburg, 1759-61

Lot Closed

April 12, 03:12 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Set of Twelve German Silver Dinner Plates, Adolf Carl Holm (7) and Johann Conrad Lotter (5), Augsburg, 1759-61

shaped circular with applied reeded borders and engraved with arms and supporters on a drapery mantle,

bases engraved with inventory numbers from series 8-2, 6, 7, 9 and 11; 9-4 and 11; 18-7, 8 and 9; 25-1 and 7, also engraved with scratch weights 

marked on bases


213 oz 10 dwt

6643 g

diameter 10 in.

25.5 cm

Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn und Taxis (1704-1773), and by descent
Sold Sotheby's, Geneva, "The Thurn und Taxis Collection", November 17, 1992, lots 97 and 101
The arms are those of Fürst Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn and Taxis (1704-1773).