Details
Les trois boîtes de section rectangulaire unie, gravées d'une frise d'oves, les couvercles repoussés et ciselés pour la paire de boîtes à thé de feuilles de thé et guirlandes de laurier, le bouchon centré d'une fleur stylisée, la boîte à sucre décorée d'une branche de canne à sucre et d'une branche de théier tenus par un ruban noué, la prise en boule, poinçons sur les fonds: ville, titre, lettre-date (q) et maître-orfèvre; le coffret probablement anglais en érable sycomore, bois de rose et houx figurant des médaillions plissés, la clé postérieure
H. des boîtes: 8,5 cm. (338 in.); L du coffret: 17,5 cm. (678 in.)
Poids de l'argent: 493 gr. (15 oz. 17 dwt.)
Provenance
Vente Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 octobre 2003, lot 691.
FURTHER DETAILS
A PAIR OF DUTCH SILVER TEA CADDIES AND A SUGAR BOX IN A WOOD CASKET, MARK OF RUDOLPH SONDAG, ROTTERDAM, 1774
The plain rectangular boxes engraved with ovolo border, the pair of caddies with detachable lid chased and embossed with garland swags and tea leaf, the circular cover centred by a flowerhead, the sugar box with detachable lid chased and embossed with sugar cane, tea bush and a tied ribbon, in the centre a plain medallion with button finial, marked underneath
The rectangular wooden casket with hinged top with two rectangular banded panels each inlaid with a fan motif, the enclosing fitted interior and further fan motif to the reverse, the front conformingly inlaid and back inlaid with oval panels, fitted key, hinged cover, the interior with three compartments
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