Object Number: #606
Marks: Breslau 1793, 96
Maker: Tobias Meyer
long over handle 45,5 cm; weight: 3.643 gr.
Literature:
s. Hintze No 175 and Christian Gündel, 1942, Die Goldschmiedekunst in Breslau, p. 37 and t. 86
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Very Fine German Parcel-Gilt Silver Soup Tureen
The terrine was formed along the lines of an ancient kantharos. It has an oval stepped foot,
an urn-shaped vessel body with one in the middle steeply rising lid and a leaf rosette on top.
The knob in the form of an artichoke. An embossed frieze of acanthusspirals – with a rosette center – runs along the edge. Angular broken cantharos-like handle.
Provenance: collection Graf von Reichenbach-Goschütz in Gündel, 1942, fig. 86