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Lot 8*
A fine 18th century Dutch silver coffee-urn Joannes Winter, Amsterdam, 1733
21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT
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Joannes Winter, Amsterdam, 1733
Pear-shaped with moulded borders, on three scroll feet, joined with pierced scroll aprons each with a central drapery panel, the lower bellied sides of the body with three taps, each with an urn shaped spigot with ebony inserts, issuing from shell and scroll cartouches and applied anthemions between and below a moulded girdle, the neck with applied openwork shaped band of scrolls and foliage, the flared rim with applied scroll and swing-drop handles either side, the pull-off high dome cover with similar applied shells and foliage and similarly decorated cone finial, 26cm wide, 26cm deep, 37cm high (10in wide, 10in deep, 14 1/2in high, weight 72 troy oz, weight 2,190 gms.
Pear-shaped with moulded borders, on three scroll feet, joined with pierced scroll aprons each with a central drapery panel, the lower bellied sides of the body with three taps, each with an urn shaped spigot with ebony inserts, issuing from shell and scroll cartouches and applied anthemions between and below a moulded girdle, the neck with applied openwork shaped band of scrolls and foliage, the flared rim with applied scroll and swing-drop handles either side, the pull-off high dome cover with similar applied shells and foliage and similarly decorated cone finial, 26cm wide, 26cm deep, 37cm high (10in wide, 10in deep, 14 1/2in high, weight 72 troy oz, weight 2,190 gms.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private Collection, Switzerland;
Christie's, Geneva, Important European Silver, Gold Boxes and Objects of Vertu, 19 May 1998, lot 151;
Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut BV, Amsterdam, where purchased 1999.
Exhibited
Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut BV, TEFAF, Maastricht, 1999.
Literature
J. W. Fredericks, Dutch Silver, The Hague, 1952, vol. II, no. 282, p. 98, ill p. 103, where described as "amongst the finest Dutch silver vessels of the period. The execution of the ornament is marvellous."
