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A PAIR OF ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT EWERS AND SIDEBOARD DISHES

Lot 40
06.02.2025 00:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
ID 1360137
Lot 40 | A PAIR OF ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT EWERS AND SIDEBOARD DISHES
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
A PAIR OF ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT EWERS AND SIDEBOARD DISHES
MARK OF CONRAD HÖLLING, ALSO STRUCK WITH MARK DD CROWNED, HANNOVER-NEUSTADT, CIRCA 1700
The two ewers each stand on a domed foot with fluted band, with knopped stem, the body of inverted helmet form, applied with cut-card to the lower body and with applied mid-rib above, leaf-capped upswung scroll handle with attenuated beaded drop, and faceted beak shaped spout, the circular dishes with molded border, all engraved with a coat-of-arms, electoral cap and initials GLC, ewers marked right of handle with maker's mark and DD crowned, dishes marked on reverse with maker's mark, DD crowned and town mark
24 ¼ in. (61.5 cm.) diameter, the dishes; 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) and 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high, the ewers
427 oz. 14 dwt. (13,302 gr.)




Provenance

Commissioned by Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, later King George I of Great Britain and Ireland (1660-1727).
By descent in the Royal Family of Great Britain and Hanover to King William IV (1765-1837), then to his brother,
Prince Ernst Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover (1771-1851), then by descent to his grandson,
Prince Ernst Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845-1923), then sold to,
Gluckselig of Vienna, circa 1923, then sold to,
Crichton Brothers, London, circa 1923, then sold to,
Sir Harold Augustus Wernher (1893-1973), Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire.
The Collection of the Late Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, Bt., G.C.V.O., Luton Hoo; Sotheby's, London, 24 May 1995, lot 100.
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, 4 July 1996.



Literature

British Library Mss. ADD. 42227, The Inventory of Silver of the Royal and Electoral Court, Hanover, 1747 entitled 'Complete Inventory of the Court Silver, comprising all his Royal Majesty our most gracious lords utensils of Gold and Silver, at present in the Royal and Electoral Silver-Chamber at Hanover From the Inventory of 1728, the Additional Inventory of 1730 and the Inventory of the year 1739, Brought together and made with the additions and alterations to Midsummer 1747, by the Grand Court Commissary Friedrich August Bartels, Hanover', Service D, p. 28, ‘3 large wash hand basins 70 [mark] 5 ½ [lot] / 3 ewers belonging to them 26 [mark] 15 ½ [lot]’.
Inventory of Contents, The Mansion, Luton Hoo, Luton, 1st October 1949, p. 80 [Wernher Archives].
R. Trevelyan, Grand Dukes and Diamonds - The Wernhers of Luton Hoo, London, 1991, p. 408.
M. Hall, 'Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire,' Country Life, 23 January 1992, p. 53, fig. 8.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 42, pp. 186-191.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Silver
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Category:Bowls
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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