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A GERMAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN, COVER AND LINER FROM THE MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ SERVICE

MARK OF GOTTFRIED CHRISTIAN DAVID PETSCHLER, NEUSTRELITZ, 1837

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A GERMAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN, COVER AND LINER FROM THE MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ SERVICE
MARK OF GOTTFRIED CHRISTIAN DAVID PETSCHLER, NEUSTRELITZ, 1837
The lobed bowl with two foliage cast handles, on circular anthemion cast base with four cast ram's supports, connected by pendant cast foliage swags, the detachable cover with cast lion final, engraved with a coat-of-arms, the conforming liner parcel-gilt and with drop-ring handles, marked on base, the liner and cover each further stamped 'FIDC' and prick numbered '5' and '8' respectively
12 ½ in. (23 cm.) high
166 oz. 16 dwt. (5,188 gr.)
The arms are those of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, probably for George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779-1860).

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Lot Essay

Other pieces from this service are known. They include a condiment set which is illustrated by W. Scheffler, Goldschmiede Mittle-Und Nordost Deutschlands, Berlin, 1980, p. 233, no. 53, pl. XX, no. 53 and a set of twelve dinner plates (Sotheby’s, Paris, 30 October 2008, lot 309), both also by Petschler. All the pieces from the service seem to be copied from, or at least inspired by French Empire prototypes. The present tureen for example can be compared to a pair which are marked for J. Guion, Paris, 1809-1819 and which are engraved with the arms of the Duke of Brunswick (Sotheby’s, New York, 27 April 1992, lot 230). That pair was however was supported on four cast seated bulls. A further example by Petschler is suppored on cast swans (Scheffler, op. cit., p. 233, pl. XXI, no. 57).

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