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Lot 470 Dα

A rare Norwegian silver coffee pot

Auction 1131 - overview Cologne
17.05.2019, 10:30 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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A rare Norwegian silver coffee pot

Fluted pear-form vessel with wooden handle on a moulded oval foot. The domed lid crowned by a model of a dove. Inscribed to the underside "Wilse" and "Morland". H 27 cm, weight 718 g.
Oslo, marks of Jacob Fredriksen Brun, circa 1740.

The Norwegian philosopher and theologian Jacob Nicolaj Wilse (1735 - 1801) married his second wife Gurine Maria Morland (1760 - 96) on 6th February 1784. Morland was the daughter of the wealthy lawyer and landowner Simon Morland of Rakkestad. This coffee pot may have been a wedding gift from her family, as Wilse returned it to them when he married a third time in 1799 after Morland's premature death in 1796. The coffee pot remained in family ownership until very recently.

Literature

For this master's mark cf.: Fossberg, Norsk Sölv, Oslo 2003, p. 87, a teapot by this master illus. on p. 257. Cf. also Fossberg, Gullsmedhandverk i byene på Østlandet før 1870, Oslo 1994, undated.