A Berlin silver teapot made for Baron von Fuchs
Rounded teapot with a tapering spout and slip lid. The finial and handle of ebonised wood. Engraved with the coat-of-arms of the von Fuchs barons beneath a wreath. H with lid 11 cm, weight 242 g.
Berlin, Jacques Roman, first quarter 18th ct.
Jacques Roman appears to have been commissioned numerous times by the Prussian court. There are documented references to gueridons and girandoles produced for King Frederick William I, which were made in 1731/32, as well as a table with a silver triton as a foot, which Frederick the Great commissioned in 1742. The price of 78 thalers for the foot was considered "enormous" at the time.
The Barons v. Fuchs are an old Franconian noble family that has developed numerous lines. The Prussian line with the eagle in the composite coat of arms had its ancestral seat on the Malchow estate near Berlin. Famous representatives included Paul v. Fuchs (1640 - 1704, who as an advocate of the Huguenots was instrumental in the issuing of the Edict of Potsdam of 1685. His son Johann Paul (1676 - 1712) was first a Brandenburg court and legation councillor and later an appeal councillor in Ravensburg.
Provenance
Former collection of the electoral court and legistration councillor Johann Paul von Fuchs in Gut Malchow near Berlin.
Private collection, Baden-Württemberg.