拍品 20
  • 20

A PARCEL-GILT AND PATINATED BRASS COFFEE-POT, PROBABLY DEMIDOFF MANUFACTURE, RUSSIA, CIRCA 1770 | A parcel-gilt and patinated brass coffee-pot, probably Demidoff manufacture, Russia, circa 1770

估價
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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描述

  • Haut. 24 cm ; 9 1/2 in. high
baluster form, on spreading foot, the body chased with deer and wolf hunting, the cover with birds and flowers within cartouches

Condition

Gilt brass worn to the edges especially to the spout, some dents in places (bigger dent on cover due to thumbpiece). In overall good condition. Rare piece
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拍品資料及來源

This coffee pot is similar to the very unique production from the manufacture created by Count Demidoff, using minerals extracted from his mines in the Ural Mountains.  For a tea and coffee service of the same type, but decorated with chinoiserie, see Collection of Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Christie's Paris, 23-25 ​​February 2009, lot 184.

For a coffee pot and a tea kettle of the same kind, see Esq. Magnin Wedry, Drouot, 26 June 2019, lot 139.