Live Auction 10897From Roentgen to Faberge: A European Private Collection
A GERMAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND STAND FROM THE PERM SERVICE
Lot 101

A GERMAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND STAND FROM THE PERM SERVICE

MARK OF SEBALD HEINRICH BLAU, AUGSBURG, 1779-1781, THE COVER A LATER REPLACEMENT

Closed20 May 2015

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A GERMAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND STAND FROM THE PERM SERVICE
MARK OF SEBALD HEINRICH BLAU, AUGSBURG, 1779-1781, THE COVER A LATER REPLACEMENT
The oval tureen on four foliate cast feet, applied with ribbon-tied husk swags and with reeded handles, the conforming stand with cast rosettes and on four fluted panel feet, marked on stand and under tureen, each piece prick engraved '7', further stamped '7' under stand, the tureen, stand and each prick engraved in Cyrillic, the later fluted cover with fruiting and foliate finial, and with conforming later silver liner
The stand: 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) long
The tureen and stand: 226 oz. 10 dwt. (7,043 gr.)

The tureen and stand ordered on behalf of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (r.1762-1796) for use in the Governor’s Palace, Perm.
Recalled to St. Petersburg by her successor Paul I, Emperor of Russia (r.1796-1801).

Specialist note

THE PERM SERVICE
For further information on the Perm Service, see the footnote to the preceding lot.

Sebald Henrich Blau made another tureen and stand for the Perm Service (a pair to lot this lot) now in the State Historical Museum, Moscow (H. Seling, op. cit. p. 656, Museum Inv. No. 81671). The later replacement cover of this tureen is directly copied from that example. Blau also contributed a tureen and stand of 1781-1783 to the Kharkov Service (now in the Kremlin Museum, Moscow, Museum Inv. No. 15777) and worked on the Riga service (see Christie’s, London, 10 July 2014, lot 3 for a pair of sauceboats on stands; and lot 102 in this catalogue for more information on the Riga service).