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AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER SOUP TUREENS AND STANDS
Lot 77 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER SOUP TUREENS AND STANDS

MARK OF GOTTFRIED BARTERMANN, AUGSBURG, 1757-1759

Closed21 May 2013

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AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER SOUP TUREENS AND STANDS
MARK OF GOTTFRIED BARTERMANN, AUGSBURG, 1757-1759
The tureens each bombé and on four shell, rocaille and foliage feet, applied with two openwork rocaille handles, the detachable covers with a finial cast as game-birds and a lobster on a foliage ground and beneath a tree stump with foliage, the conforming oval stands with open rocaille handles, each engraved circa 1817 with accolé coats-of-arms below two coronets, marked on cover bezel and under tureens and near rim of stands
The stands 25 1/2 in. (65 cm) long; 459 oz. (14,260 gr.) (2)

Specialist note

The arms are those of Flahaut de la Billardie with those of Elphinstone quartering Nairne and Altholl below a Baron's coronet on an escutcheon of pretence, all below a Count's coronet and accolé with the arms of Elphinstone quartering Nairne and Altholl below a Baron's coronet for Auguste-Charles-Joseph, Comte de Flahaut de la Billardie (1785-1870) and his wife Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, later Baroness Nairne and Baroness Keith (1788-1867), only child of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith and his first wife Jane, whom he married in 1817.