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Sugar Spoon In Vermeil, Strasbourg, 1768

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"Sugar Spoon In Vermeil, Strasbourg, 1768"
  • Sugar spoon
  • Silver forged and pierced sterling silver
  • Strasbourg, 1768
  • Master silversmith: attributed to Fritz
  • Length: 19.7 cm Diameter of the spoon: 6.8 cm; weight: 92g
  • Very good state of conservation, some wear to the gilding.
  • Sugar spoon in gilt silver with nets and shells. The fillet spoon is decorated with a pierced central rosette with tulips surrounded by a motif of locks enriched with four leaves. The spatula is engraved with coats of arms: in a rococo cartouche surmounted by a earl crown , the coat of arms, on silver apassing lion sable accosted by four birds, with the shield of azure fess of gules charged with three stars in chief and in point.
  • Oily and very fresh spoon, a very similar model is kept at the museum of the work of Notre-Dame de Strasbourg
  • Hallmarks: Recognition: small 13 with fleur de lys, Strasbourg, around 1750-1789 [4, p.37]; Jurande: R surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, Strasbourg, 1768 [4, p.37]; master silversmith: illegible, only a "Z" is, perhaps the Fritz hallmark
  • Ref. : [1] Collective: "Two centuries of goldsmithing in Strasbourg", Museums of Strasbourg, 2004; [2] Kenber, Bilgi: "Sugar spoons in 18th century French silverware", Somogy, 2005; [3] Bimbenet-Privat & Furhing: "Orfèvrerie française, La collection Jourdan-Barry", Kugel ed. 2005; [4] Haug, Fischer & Hesselbarth: "The golden century of silversmithing in Strasbourg", Exhibition at Jacques Kugel from October 10 to 31, 1964, 1964
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