A set of four German silver wine coolers, Johann Heinrich...
on tri-form bases engraved with a coat-of-arms, the bodies modelled as buckets on three thyrsi entwined with fruiting vine ornament, surmounted by bunches of grapes, numbered inside and with metal plates at the bases, marked on the base with town and maker's mark
38cm. 15in. high
17,770gr., 571¼oz total
Provenance:
Count Ernst Friedrich Herbert zu Münster (1766-1839) and his wife Wilhelmine von Schaumburg-Lippe, whom he married in 1814, to their son;
Count Georg Herbert zu Münster (1820-1902);
S.J. Phillips, London, 1996;
Sotheby's, New York, Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, 18-21 October 2011, lot 839
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on tri-form bases engraved with a coat-of-arms, the bodies modelled as buckets on three thyrsi entwined with fruiting vine ornament, surmounted by bunches of grapes, numbered inside and with metal plates at the bases, marked on the base with town and maker's mark
38cm. 15in. high
17,770gr., 571¼oz total
Provenance:
Count Ernst Friedrich Herbert zu Münster (1766-1839) and his wife Wilhelmine von Schaumburg-Lippe, whom he married in 1814, to their son;
Count Georg Herbert zu Münster (1820-1902);
S.J. Phillips, London, 1996;
Sotheby's, New York, Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, 18-21 October 2011, lot 839