A museum quality Régence silver toilette mirror
A museum quality Régence silver toilette mirror
With the original faceted mirror pane. Moulded rectangular mirror frame with a rounded upper edge mounted on a red velvet covered panel. Both sides with slender column motifs surmounted by vases over scrolls and floral festoons. The lower edge engraved with the weight "3 M. 2 1/2 loth". With an old label on the reverse inscribed "Exl. v. Pohl, Bonn Schedestr, 13 II." Marks: BZ Berlin c. 1730, MZ Christian Lieberkühn the Elder (court goldsmith, 1701 - 1733, Scheffler Berlin No. 1, 90). The Lieberkühn stamps are overstamped with BZ Potsdam, MZ Christian Gottlieb Kelle (also: Kelly, around 1722 - 1749, court goldsmith from 1732, Scheffler Mitteldeutschland No.530a, 546a), tremolier engraving. H 60.5; W 46.5 cm.
Berlin/Potsdam, marks of Christian Lieberkühn the Elder and Christian Gottlieb Kelle, around 1730.
Scheffler mentions several silver frames made by Lieberkühn between 1730 and 1733 for the Berlin City Palace, as well as mirrors for the Dohna princes at Schlobitten Castle.
The younger Christian Gottlieb Kelle is mentioned as court silversmith to Frederick William I in Potsdam in 1732. He may have taken over the mirror from his predecessor's workshop, as his maker's mark and the Potsdam hallmark overlap Lieberkühn's Berlin marks.
Kelle carried out commissions from the Prussian court until the 1740s - and was granted the privilege of making all the silver trumpets for the Prussian army under Frederick II in 1743.
Provenance
Former collection of Hugo v. Pohl, Bonn (1855 - 1916); art dealership of Volker Westphal and Astrid v. Bethmann-Hollweg, Berlin in 1999; subsequently in a private collection, Baden-Württemberg.
Literature
For the mirror by Lieberkuhn see Friedrich Sarre, Die Berliner Goldschmiede-Zunft von ihrem Entstehen bis zum Jahre 1800, Berlin 1895, p. 80 f.
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A museum quality Régence silver toilette mirror
With the original faceted mirror pane. Moulded rectangular mirror frame with a rounded upper edge mounted on a red velvet covered panel. Both sides with slender column motifs surmounted by vases over scrolls and floral festoons. The lower edge engraved with the weight "3 M. 2 1/2 loth". With an old label on the reverse inscribed "Exl. v. Pohl, Bonn Schedestr, 13 II." Marks: BZ Berlin c. 1730, MZ Christian Lieberkühn the Elder (court goldsmith, 1701 - 1733, Scheffler Berlin No. 1, 90). The Lieberkühn stamps are overstamped with BZ Potsdam, MZ Christian Gottlieb Kelle (also: Kelly, around 1722 - 1749, court goldsmith from 1732, Scheffler Mitteldeutschland No.530a, 546a), tremolier engraving. H 60.5; W 46.5 cm.
Berlin/Potsdam, marks of Christian Lieberkühn the Elder and Christian Gottlieb Kelle, around 1730.
Scheffler mentions several silver frames made by Lieberkühn between 1730 and 1733 for the Berlin City Palace, as well as mirrors for the Dohna princes at Schlobitten Castle.
The younger Christian Gottlieb Kelle is mentioned as court silversmith to Frederick William I in Potsdam in 1732. He may have taken over the mirror from his predecessor's workshop, as his maker's mark and the Potsdam hallmark overlap Lieberkühn's Berlin marks.
Kelle carried out commissions from the Prussian court until the 1740s - and was granted the privilege of making all the silver trumpets for the Prussian army under Frederick II in 1743.
Provenance
Former collection of Hugo v. Pohl, Bonn (1855 - 1916); art dealership of Volker Westphal and Astrid v. Bethmann-Hollweg, Berlin in 1999; subsequently in a private collection, Baden-Württemberg.
Literature
For the mirror by Lieberkuhn see Friedrich Sarre, Die Berliner Goldschmiede-Zunft von ihrem Entstehen bis zum Jahre 1800, Berlin 1895, p. 80 f.
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