Breakfast service made of gilded silver, mostly by Frantz Peter Bundsen, Hanover, around 1789
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Semi-fluted beneath floral tendrils and ribbons of Vitruvian honeysuckle tendrils, with pearl borders, consisting of: a teapot and burner stand, a teapot, a milk jug, a toast stand, a large bowl or washbasin, a sugar bowl with lid, a tray; (unmarked) two salt shakers, two salt scoops, six knives with steel blades, twelve spoons, a sugar tongs; two double-sided egg cups, Johann Georg Christoph Kahr, Regensburg, circa 1800; a pastry lifter, Jean-Jacques Kirstein, Strasbourg, circa 1790, engraved with a T under a princely crown; all in a silk-lined, royal wood veneered transport case.
The kettle is 35 cm high, the case 52.5 cm wide.
6946 g, 223 oz. without knife and cake server.
Provenance
Given in 1789 by King George III of Great Britain and Ireland to his niece, Princess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on the occasion of her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis,
then passed on by inheritance,
Sotheby’s, Geneva, Thurn und Taxis Collection, November 17, 1992, Lot 74
Exhibited
Hanover, Historical Museum, September 8, 1995 – November 12, 1995
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