Lot 263
19th C. German 800 Silver Sugar Caster
19th C. German 800 Silver Sugar Caster
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Central Europe, Germany, Hanau, ca. 1880–1920 CE. A diminutive silver muffineer rising on a stepped octagonal foot to an urn-shaped body, its surface a quiet exercise in neoclassical revival vocabulary. Eight gently faceted panels are framed by pilaster-like dividers and dressed with repousse swags of laurel and bellflowers, the husks tied with ribbon bows that fall in measured rhythm around the shoulder. A band of stylized leaf-tips crowns the upper register, while fluted gadroons fan upward from the foot, lending the lower body a columnar gravity that echoes Adamesque and Louis XVI prototypes filtered through a Wilhelmine sensibility. The pierced dome cover is wrought with a lattice of trellised diamonds and crescent perforations, surmounted by a cast acorn finial, the whole calibrated to disperse fine sugar or spiced powder in a polite sift across muffins, scones, or fruit. Struck on the underside with pseudo-marks, a crowned C beside crossed keys, the caster belongs to the long tradition of Hanau silversmithing, where workshops such as those of Neresheimer, Schleissner, and Weinranck routinely revived eighteenth-century European forms in 800-standard silver for an export market hungry for ancien-regime refinement. The crossed keys recall Bremen and other older municipal marks, deliberately evoked rather than legally claimed, a conceit characteristic of Hanau's late nineteenth and early twentieth-century production. Tested at 80.3 percent silver, the piece sits comfortably within the German 800 fineness standard codified in 1888.. 3.1" D x 7.8" H (7.9 cm D x 19.8 cm H); silver quality: 80.3%; weight: 188.1 grams.
Provenance: private Loveland, Colorado, USA collection, acquired September 26, 2004 via D.D. Allen Antiques, Inc., La Jolla, California, USA
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Item #
202734
- Condition: Excellent. Some rubbing to hallmarks and patina in areas, but, otherwise, excellent with good detail.
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