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Lot 696 Dα

A museum quality silver coffee pot

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 3.500 € - 4.000 €
Result: 6.552 € (incl. premium)
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A museum quality silver coffee pot

Solid, twist fluted baluster-form vessel with pointed spout and wooden handle inlaid with a silver moulding and studs. With a small acorn finial and a vacant engraved reserve to the display side. H 30 cm, weight 1,397 g.
Torino/Malta, marks of Carlo Borromeo Minutto and Paolo Aquilina, around 1740.

Literature

For more on Aquilina, see also Denaro, The Goldsmiths of Malta and their marks, Florence 1972, pp. 128, 166. On the joint appearance of Italian and Maltese marks, see Jimmy Farrugia, Antique Maltese Domestic Silver, Valetta 1992.