MARK OF HUMBERT & SOHN, BERLIN, CIRCA 1840

细节

A pair of German silver dessert-stands
Mark of Humbert & Sohn, Berlin, circa 1840
Each partly fluted shaped circular on conforming pedestal base, the stem formed as a kneeling male figure with grapevine garlands, the detachable dish with cast and chased fruiting grapevine border, and central chased and pierced button knop, the base engraved with FW cypher with Royal Prussian crown above, presumably for Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, marked on foot-rim, filled
10in. (25.5cm.) high
gross 85oz. (2,669gr.) (2)

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拍品专文

Four further examples of these dessert-stands are at Huis Doorn and were exhibited Hanau, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Kaiserliches Gold und Silber, Schätze der Hohenzollern aus dem Schloss Huis Doorn, 1986, cat. no. 65, illustrated p. 88.