A German silver-gilt breakfast service, the majority Frantz Peter Bundsen,...
Half-fluted below floral swags and bands of Vitruvian honeysuckle scrolls, with beaded borders, comprising: a tea kettle and burner stand, a teapot, a cream jug, a toast rack, a large bowl or slop basin, a covered sugar bowl, a tray; (unmarked) two salts, two salt shovels, six knives with steel blades, twelve spoons, a pair of sugar tongs; two double-sided egg cups, Johann Georg Christoph Kahr, Regensburg, circa 1800; a pastry server, Jean-Jacques Kirstein, Strasbourg, circa 1790, engraved T below a princely crown; all in a silk-lined kingwood veneered carrying case.
the kettle 35cm., 13 1/2in. high; the case 52.5cm., 20 1/2in. wide
6946gr., 223oz. excluding knives and pastry server
Condition Report:
Hallmarks are clear. General light wear to the high points of the gilding.
Teapot: a small chip to the wood finial. Tatty raffia.
Sugar bowl: missing liner. Finial slightly pushed down.
Salts: one leans slightly to one side. A small split in the body where the foot screws in.
Kettle: tatty raffia. Some minor cracks in the wood finial.
Repairs to the bowls of the salt shovels.
Case: the inside fabric is a little tired. Minor cracks in the lid.
Catalogue Note:
This magnificent silver-gilt service was a wedding present from George III to his wife Queen Charlotte's niece Princess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773-1839) on her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis in 1789. It was commissioned from the court silversmith Frantz Peter Bundsen at a cost of 1190 Reichsthaler1.
Provenance:
Gifted by King George III of Great Britain and Ireland in 1789 to his niece,
Princess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz on her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis,
thence by descent,
Sotheby's, Geneva, The Thurn und Taxis Collection, 17 November 1992, lot 74
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Half-fluted below floral swags and bands of Vitruvian honeysuckle scrolls, with beaded borders, comprising: a tea kettle and burner stand, a teapot, a cream jug, a toast rack, a large bowl or slop basin, a covered sugar bowl, a tray; (unmarked) two salts, two salt shovels, six knives with steel blades, twelve spoons, a pair of sugar tongs; two double-sided egg cups, Johann Georg Christoph Kahr, Regensburg, circa 1800; a pastry server, Jean-Jacques Kirstein, Strasbourg, circa 1790, engraved T below a princely crown; all in a silk-lined kingwood veneered carrying case.
the kettle 35cm., 13 1/2in. high; the case 52.5cm., 20 1/2in. wide
6946gr., 223oz. excluding knives and pastry server
Condition Report:
Hallmarks are clear. General light wear to the high points of the gilding.
Teapot: a small chip to the wood finial. Tatty raffia.
Sugar bowl: missing liner. Finial slightly pushed down.
Salts: one leans slightly to one side. A small split in the body where the foot screws in.
Kettle: tatty raffia. Some minor cracks in the wood finial.
Repairs to the bowls of the salt shovels.
Case: the inside fabric is a little tired. Minor cracks in the lid.
Catalogue Note:
This magnificent silver-gilt service was a wedding present from George III to his wife Queen Charlotte's niece Princess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773-1839) on her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis in 1789. It was commissioned from the court silversmith Frantz Peter Bundsen at a cost of 1190 Reichsthaler1.
Provenance:
Gifted by King George III of Great Britain and Ireland in 1789 to his niece,
Princess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz on her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis,
thence by descent,
Sotheby's, Geneva, The Thurn und Taxis Collection, 17 November 1992, lot 74
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