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Lot 1014 D α

An important Leipzig silver flask

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 28.000 € - 30.000 €
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An important Leipzig silver flask

Bottle of hexagonal section on a smooth base, with a domed screw lid and folding handle. Decorated on all faces with finely embossed and chased tropaia alternating with portraits of Roman emperors in oval medallions amid acanthus and fruit garlands. The lid engraved with the coat-of-arms of the Ukrainian Kotchubey family with the device “ELEVOR UBI CONSUMOR”. Engraved below with the inventory numbers “293.z.” and “XLI”. H 27.5 cm, weight 1,239 g.
Marks of Johann Paul Schmidt, 1694 – 96.

The Kotchubey are a Ukrainian princely family whose roots can be traced back to the 17th century. Rosenberg mentions this flask (3066 d), which was owned by Pyotr Arkadevich Kotchubey (1825 - 1892) in 1885. Pyotr Arkadevich Kotchubey was a privy councillor, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, one of the founders of the Museum of Applied Knowledge in St. Petersburg, as well as chairman of the Russian Technical Society - and built up a significant silver collection in the 19th century.

Provenance

Former collection of Pjotr Arkadewitsch Kotchubey (1825 - 92); German private collection; auctioned by Koller Zürich, March 2014; subsequently in German private ownership.