A Magdeburg silver coffee pot
A Magdeburg silver coffee pot
Baluster-form vessel with pointed spout and wooden handle. The domed cover surmounted by a flower sprig finial. Richly adorned with repoussé rocaille scrolls and flowerheads. Monogrammed "SDP" and dated 1786 on the underside. H 28 cm, weight 744 g.
Marks of Johann Tobias Langenbeck, around 1770.
Provenance
Former Kunsthandel Eberhard Giese, Cologne; Cologne private collection, sold at Lempertz auction 955, lot 463; Rhenish private collection.
Literature
Cf. a pair of jugs by this master, illustrated in cat. Barockes Silber aus rheinischen Sammlungen, Aachen 1964, no. 307, fig. 223. The present jug is mentioned and illustrated in Scheffler 1980, p. 176, fig. 26.
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A Magdeburg silver coffee pot
Baluster-form vessel with pointed spout and wooden handle. The domed cover surmounted by a flower sprig finial. Richly adorned with repoussé rocaille scrolls and flowerheads. Monogrammed "SDP" and dated 1786 on the underside. H 28 cm, weight 744 g.
Marks of Johann Tobias Langenbeck, around 1770.
Provenance
Former Kunsthandel Eberhard Giese, Cologne; Cologne private collection, sold at Lempertz auction 955, lot 463; Rhenish private collection.
Literature
Cf. a pair of jugs by this master, illustrated in cat. Barockes Silber aus rheinischen Sammlungen, Aachen 1964, no. 307, fig. 223. The present jug is mentioned and illustrated in Scheffler 1980, p. 176, fig. 26.
