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RARE SILVER COFFEE SERVICE WITH FLUTED DECOR

Lot 720
20.11.2025 10:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerVAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
Event locationGermany, Köln
Buyer Premium32%
ID 1488509
Lot 720 | RARE SILVER COFFEE SERVICE WITH FLUTED DECOR
Estimate value
€ 4 000 – 6 000
RARE SILVER COFFEE SERVICE WITH FLUTED DECOR.

Koch & Bergfeld. Bremen.

Date: Ca. 1980s.
Maker/Designer: Draft presumably by Horst Heeren.
Technique: Silver. Bakelite handles and lids.
Description: Consisting of a coffee pot and a teapot with two matching oval rechauds, a hot milk or
mocha pot, a cream jug and a sugar bowl on a small tray. The oval body is
circumferentially decorated with a dense rod relief and the long, angled spout is designed
in the same style as the handles. The lids each have a bayonet lock, and the sugar bowl
has a slip lid.
Weight: Ca. 5940g.
Measurement: Height 21/15,5cm/7x14x11cm/7x17x13cm/Height 17/7/6cm/20x14cm.
Mark: Crescent & crown, 925 standard silver , maker's mark with key, seller's mark G. Hermeling, nos. 9856, 9857, 9859, 9860, 9861, 9882.
The small tray without any discernible marks, silver tested. The Bakelite coatings on the lids of the jugs are cracked.


Literature:
Heitmann, Bernhard: Handwerk und Maschinenkraft. Koch & Bergfeld, die Silbermanufaktur in Bremen, exhibition catalogue, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 1999, Hamburg 1999. On page 39, fig. Z35 shows a design drawing by Horst Heeren for a jug that was produced later. Here, it is primarily the shapes of the handles that are reminiscent of the presented jugs.
Auction house category:Silver
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