Dish covers, coolers, soup tureens, salt cellars, pepper and mustard pots, sauceboats

• Double salt with dolphins
• Dish covers, coolers, soup tureens, salt cellars, pepper and mustard pots, sauceboats

BK-17038

Empire dubbel zoutvat, van verguld zilver. Op een rechthoekige basis, rusten twee dolfijnen die op de gekronkelde staarten twee schelpvormige schalen dragen. Gegraveerd met het wapen van Potemkin.

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silversmith: Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot, Paris

c. 1819

verguld zilver

height 13.6 cm x width 14.6 cm x depth 10 cm x weight 1323 g

Public domain

Commissioned by or for Alexandra Countess Branicka - Vasilievna Engelhardt (1754-1838) and Franciszwesky Ksawery Petrovich Branicki (1730-1819), 1819;{Baarsen 2013, pp. 480-7, no. 118.}.…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 234, no. Si.104.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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