A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set - image-1
A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set - image-2
A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set - image-3
A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set - image-1A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set - image-2A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set - image-3

Lot 131 Dα

A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 45.000 € - 50.000 €
Result: 50.624 € (incl. premium)
Artist Alert
Print page
Watchlist

A Strasbourg silver gilt travel cutlery set

Comprising a knife, fork, spoon, and beaker à quatre côtes pincées, a spice cruet with two compartments and a pair of travel candlesticks with removable triangular feet. In the original green velvet lined travel case covered with dark red marroquin leather with the gilt embossed Bourbon coat-of-arms. H of beaker 7.6 of the candlestick 8.5 cm. L of case 27.5, W 5 cm.
Strasbourg, Marks of Johann Ludwig II Imlin (the beaker) and Johann Philipp Fuchs (the cutlery), 1736 – 50. The spice cruet unmarked.

Literature

Illus. in cat. Vermeilleux, L'Argent doré de Strasbourg du XVIe au XIXe siècle, Paris 2014, no. 29. Cf. Also an almost identical set in cat. Le Siècle d’Or de l’Orfèvrerie de Strasbourg, Paris 1964, p. 56, no. 53.