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Lot 419 Dα

A Brussels silver hot chocolate pot

Auction 1107 - overview Cologne
15.05.2018, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.400 € - 1.800 €
Result: 2.728 € (incl. premium)

A Brussels silver hot chocolate pot

With the original wooden whisk. Monogrammed "DS" beneath a baronial crown and engraved "P. J. Nicaise" in tiny script. H without whisk 23 cm, weight 854 g.
Marks of Joseph Germain Dutalis, ca. 1820.

Provenance

From the estate of Euphrosine Nicaise, the eldest daughter of the merchant Philipp Joseph Nicaise, who married Dominique Siraut, the mayor of Bergen, who was created a Baron in 1847.

Literature

For this maker cf.: Dievoet, Dictionnairedes Orfèvres de Bruxelles au XIX siècle, Louvain 2003, p. 181 ff. Cf. also an almost identical chocolate pot illus. in cat.: Joseph Germain Dutalis, Edelsmid van Koning Willem I, Antwerp 2004, p. 298, illus. E9.