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Lot 294 Dα

Four Berlin silver gilt salts

Auction 1105 - overview Berlin
21.04.2018, 14:00 - Prussia II
Estimate: 4.000 € - 4.500 €
Result: 4.960 € (incl. premium)
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Four Berlin silver gilt salts

Deep oval dishes with dolphin mascarons in relief on scroll feet. W 6.5; D 4.7; H 4.3 cm, total weight 399 g.
One pair marked "E. SCHÜRMANN & Co FRANKFURT A/M", the other marked "D. VOLLGOLD & SOHN". Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, ca. 1881 - 88.

Upon the marriage of the Crown Prince in 1881, 96 Prussian towns commissioned a silver-gilt dinner service for 50 persons after a design by Adolf Heyden (1838 - 1902). Heyden was one of the most accomplished Historicist designers in Berlin. The production of this extensive commission was put into the hands of several workshops, primarily the Berlin court goldsmith Vollgold & Sohn and the Frankfurt firm E. Schürmann & Co. Following William II's ascent to the throne in 1888, the dinner service was only used for the most important occasions, the last of which being the wedding feast of Princess Victoria Louise and Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig in 1913 (cf. cat. Kronschatz und Silberkammer der Hohenzollern, Berlin/Munich 2010, no. 55.)

Provenance

From German aristocratic ownership.

Literature

Illus. in: Lessing, Das Tafelsilber ihrer Königlichen Hoheiten des Prinzen und der Prinzessin Wilhelm von Preußen, Berlin 1883, pl. XVII.