An important pair of Augsburg silver wall app ...

An important pair of Augsburg silver wall appliques

Openwork oval-form cartouche frames finely chased with strapwork, scrolls, acanthus, and flowerheads, and with a large flower-filled shell surmount, over wooden corpus. The undulating leaf-clasped branches terminating in cylindrical nozzles over wide drip pans. One candelabrum with a minor loss to the upper left scroll, the glass replaced. H 58; W 41 cm.

Marks of Johann Valentin Gevers, 1709 - 12.

** Provenance
Formerly the Emil M. Huennebeck Collection, Rhineland.

** Exhibitions
Barockes Silber aus Rheinischen Sammlungen, Suermondt-Museum, Aachen, September - November 1964, no. 22, illus. 11; Ein rheinischer Silberschatz, Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz, Cologne, May - July 1980, no. 208.