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Gottlieb Menzel

Wrocław 1676 – 1757 Augsburg

Lavabo set (ewer and basin) with lockets of the four continents. Circa 1725/30

Silver, embossed, cast, chased, engraved, gilt. 24 cm / 4,5 × 38 × 28,8 cm (9 ½ in. / 1 ¾ × 15 × 11 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Gottlieb Menzel. Lavabo set (ewer and basin) with lockets of the four continents. Circa 1725/30.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 35,300

 

- 47,100

Sold for:

31,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017

Information

Silver, embossed, cast, chased, engraved, gilt. 24 cm / 4,5 × 38 × 28,8 cm (9 ½ in. / 1 ¾ × 15 × 11 ⅜ in.). Both parts marked with hallmark, Augsburg [Seling 193*] date differing to Seling 1980 through supplement vol. Seling 1994; master's mark: GM in rectangle with cut corners [Seling 2202n]; "tremolierstrich" mark. Dutch import stamp: curved v [Rosenberg 7557]. Total weight: 1628 g. Slight abrasion to the gold at the base of the basin.

Related literature and comparable objects: Gottlieb Menzel: Lavabogarnitur, 1729-1730, court furniture collection, Silberkammer, Vienna, inv. no. 180514 (estate of the Archduchess Maria Elisabeth) / Hannelore Müller: European Silver. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Madrid, 1986, no. 70, p. 222f. / auction: London, Christie's, 14 June 2005, cat. no. 74 (formerly J. Kugel, Paris).

Private collection, Netherlands (after 1909) / private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 1993 at Kunsthandlung Helmut Seling, Munich)

Kunst- and Antiquitätenmessen Munich, 1993 (stand Helmut Seling)

Helmut Seling: Die Kunst der Augsburg Goldschmiede. 1529–1868. Meister, Marken, Werke. Munich, 1980, vol. I, p. 179; vol. II, ill. 854; vol. III, no. 2022, p. 310f. / Gabriele Tiemann: Zum Prunk- and Tafelsilber. In: Weltkunst, vol. 64, no. 6, 15. March 1994, p. 810