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Lot 1207 Dα

A Parisian Art Deco silver service made for Princess Ileana of Romania

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
Result: 5.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Parisian Art Deco silver service made for Princess Ileana of Romania

Comprising a coffee pot, teapot, sugar box and milk jug. The vessels of oval section with handles and finials of wood. All pieces engraved with the princess' monogram beneath the Romanian royal crown. H coffee pot 14 cm, total weight 1,201 g.
Marks of Charles Christofle, around 1930.

Princess Ileana (1909 - 1991) was the youngest daughter of the Romanian King Ferdinand I and his wife, Queen Marie Alexandra Victoria, née Princess of Edinburgh. The service was probably produced on occasion of Ileana's marriage to Archduke Anton of Austria-Tuscany on 26th July 1931. For political reasons, Ileana's brother King Charles II recommended that she live outside of Romania, and thus the couple spent time in Munich and Vienna before settling in Sonnberg Palace in Austria.

Provenance

Former estate of Princess Ileana of Romania; auctioned by Stuker, Bern, on 30th November 1973, lot 4571; North German private collection.

Literature

For more on the dating of this mark see Marc de Ferrière, Christofle - 150 ans d'art et de rêve, in: Dossier de l'art, No. 2, Dijon 1991, p. 73.