ID 1360079
Lot 125 | A GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED NINE PIECE RUBY GLASS APOTHECARY SERVICE
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
THE GLASS SOUTH GERMANY, LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1700
Comprising two hexagonal bottles and a smaller octagonal bottle all with domed engine-turned covers, three jars with everted rims, a bowl, a silver funnel, and a silver spoon, the case covered in green velvet with brass mounts, the hinged cover with mirror to the inside, lined with pink silk and fitted with spaces for all components and two vacant spaces, likely for oval boxes, apparently unmarked
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) high, the hexagonal bottles; 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) wide, the case
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, 2002.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 89, pp. 316-317.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Glass, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Glass, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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