A Kassel silver tea machine - image-1
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Lot 1154 Dα

A Kassel silver tea machine

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 16:30 - Selected Works of Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 4.092 € (incl. premium)

A Kassel silver tea machine

Four bun feet supporting a square base with pierced border. The urn with lion mascarons and a curved tap with ebonised wooden handle beneath a vacant reserve. The slip lid with pinecone finial. Two minor losses to the beaded rim of the base. H 45 cm, weight 2,723 g.
Marks of Johannes Adam Kördel, 1798 - 1804.

Literature

Cf. an almost identical tea machine made for the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel which Kördel made in 1799 "for [personal] use Serenissimi in Schloss Bellevue", illus. in cat.: Kasseler Silber, Kassel 1998, no. 150.