A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER WINE COOLERS

细节

A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER WINE COOLERS
HANAU, LATE 19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK OF GEORG ROTH

Each after a design by J.A. Messonnier, of baluster form with two mermaid handles, each holding sea serpents, chased with panels of mythological scenes and flowers and the Bourbon arms, with ovolo and tied reed borders, marked under bases--9 5/8in. (24.4cm.) high (138 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)

来源

出版

An identical wine cooler, bearing spurious marks for Thomas Germain, is illustrated in "Des Faux" in Jacques Helft, Nouveaux Poincons, Paris, 1980, p. 255.

拍品专文

An identical wine cooler, bearing spurious marks for Thomas Germain, is illustrated in "Des Faux" in Jacques Helft, Nouveaux Poincons, Paris, 1980, p. 225, while a silver-gilt example bearing spurious marks for Angers, 1758 from the Meyer de Schauensee Collection was sold in these Rooms, April 18, 1991, lot 1.