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Lot 179 Dα

A Frederician silver coffee pot

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 13.000 € - 16.000 €
Result: 19.375 € (incl. premium)

A Frederician silver coffee pot

Interior gilt coffee pot with bulbous corpus and curved wooden handle. Richly decorated with chased Rococo ornament and flowering sprigs, the domed lid with corresponding decor and a cast flowerhead finial. H 25.5 cm, weight 737 g.
Berlin, marks of Hermann Neupert II, 1762 - 73.

Hermann Neupert II originated from a family of goldsmiths from Norden in East Frisia. He worked in Berlin from around 1762 to 1773, where he was commissioned by Friedrich II with the completion of the dinner service begun by Christian Lieberkühn in 1746/47. This coffee pot bears a marked similarity to a set of candlesticks which Neupert produced for the Prussian King in around 1764 which is currently housed in Huis Doorn in the Netherlands.

Provenance

Sold in Lempertz auction 1047, 2nd May 2015, lot 54; German private collection.

Literature

Scheffler lists a coffee pot by this maker with chased Rococo ornament in Berlin private ownership, namely the collection of Dr. R. Zu Neupert, cf. also cat. Kaiserlicher Kunstbesitz aus dem holländischen Exil Haus Doorn, Berlin 1991, p. 92.