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After Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Neuruppin 1781 – 1841 Berlin

Large silver goblet – for the Berlin court actor Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Unzelmann (1753–1832) on the occasion of his 50th year on the stage. 1821

Silver, cast, embossed, chased, engraved; inside gilt. Execution Johann Ludwig and Carl Adolph Geri(c)ke. 36,5 cm, Ø 19 cm (14 ⅜ in., Ø 7 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: After Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Large silver goblet – for the Berlin court actor Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Unzelmann (1753–1832) on the occasion of his 50th year on the stage. 1821.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 11,200

 

- 16,900

Sold for:

11,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Orangerie Selected Objects, Thursday, 26.11.2015

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Silver, cast, embossed, chased, engraved; inside gilt. Execution Johann Ludwig and Carl Adolph Geri(c)ke. 36,5 cm, Ø 19 cm (14 ⅜ in., Ø 7 ½ in.). Hallmark, Berlin [Scheffler 14 and 18]; master's mark: GERIKE B BERLIN [not as in Scheffler]; fineness number: 12; "tremolierstrich" mark. Engraving on the bowl: DEM VERDIENTEN VETERAN / CARL WILHELM FERDINAND UNZELMANN. / BEY SEINER 50 JAEHRIGEN DIENST=JUBELFEIER / AM 10 APRIL 1821. / VON SEINEN KUNSTGENOSSEN. Weight: 2,003 g.

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Unzelmann, Berlin / his son, the xylographer Friedrich Ludwig Unzelmann (1797–1854), Berlin and Vienna / private collection, Austria

Neue Breslauer Zeitung, 16 April 1821, p. 840 / Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Unzelmann’s fünfzigjähriges Jubiläum in Berlin; in: August Klingemann (ed.): Allgemeiner deutscher Theater-Almanach für das Jahr 1822, Braunschweig 1822, p. 311–315, quotation: p. 312

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