21st Nov, 2024 11:00
European Works of Art, Objects & Silver
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‡ A RUSSIAN PARCEL-GILT-SILVER MUG AND COVER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM SENGBUSCH, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1850
the baluster body with two shaped cartouches showing traces of engraved inscriptions surrounded by chased foliate strapwork borders on matted, punched or hatched grounds, with cast and chased branch-like handle, the domed cover with further strapwork below a cast flowering twig finial, '84', maker's and town marks to body and cover, body with zigzag assay scrape, 19cm high, 403g
For two other mugs by this maker, both with the same cast twig finials to the covers, see Christie’s, London, 8 June 2010, lot 194 and Wannenes, Milan, 5 July 2023, lot 107.
Sold for £900
the baluster body with two shaped cartouches showing traces of engraved inscriptions surrounded by chased foliate strapwork borders on matted, punched or hatched grounds, with cast and chased branch-like handle, the domed cover with further strapwork below a cast flowering twig finial, '84', maker's and town marks to body and cover, body with zigzag assay scrape, 19cm high, 403g
For two other mugs by this maker, both with the same cast twig finials to the covers, see Christie’s, London, 8 June 2010, lot 194 and Wannenes, Milan, 5 July 2023, lot 107.
Auction: European Works of Art, Objects & Silver, 21st Nov, 2024
The auction ‘European Works of Art, Objects and Silver’ is one of our biannual live sales offering a range of ceramics, sculpture and works of art, silver from around the world, and objects of vertu.
Highlights in this sale include finely painted KPM plaques, Russian Easter eggs, a marble figure of a young woman by Cesare Lapini, Persian and Iraqi silver, Art Deco Puiforcat silver, Victorian naturalistic silver and fifty lots of silver boxes and smallwork from a private London collection.
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