A KING’S GIFT
A German silver-gilt breakfast service, the majority Frantz Peter Bundsen, Hanover, circa 1789
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July 5, 02:27 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 100,000 GBP
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A KING’S GIFT
A German silver-gilt breakfast service
the majority Frantz Peter Bundsen, Hanover, circa 1789
Half-fluted below floral swags and bands of Vitruvian honeysuckle scrolls, with beaded borders, comprising: a tea kettle and burner stand, a teapot, a cream jug, a toast rack, a large bowl or slop basin, a covered sugar bowl, a tray; (unmarked) two salts, two salt shovels, six knives with steel blades, twelve spoons, a pair of sugar tongs; two double-sided egg cups, Johann Georg Christoph Kahr, Regensburg, circa 1800; a pastry server, Jean-Jacques Kirstein, Strasbourg, circa 1790, engraved T below a princely crown; all in a silk-lined kingwood veneered carrying case.
the kettle 35cm., 13 1/2in. high; the case 52.5cm., 20 1/2in. wide
6946gr., 223oz. excluding knives and pastry server
Princess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz on her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis,
thence by descent,
Sotheby's, Geneva, The Thurn und Taxis Collection, 17 November 1992, lot 74
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