Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey

Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 83. A German silver-gilt breakfast service, the majority Frantz Peter Bundsen, Hanover, circa 1789.

A German silver-gilt breakfast service, the majority Frantz Peter Bundsen, Hanover, circa 1789

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseRestricted Species

Lot Closed

April 11, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

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

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Gifted by King George III of Great Britain and Ireland in 1789 to his niece,

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

Hanover, Historisches Museum, 8 September 1995 - 12 November 1995

This magnificent silver-gilt service was a wedding present from George III to his wife Queen Charlotte's niece Princess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773-1839) on her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis in 1789. It was commissioned from the court silversmith Frantz Peter Bundsen at a cost of 1190 Reichsthaler1.