An early Zurich silver gilt travel cutlery set - image-1
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Lot 377 Dα

An early Zurich silver gilt travel cutlery set

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 11:00 - Decorative Arts I (Silver)
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.400 €
Result: 6.200 € (incl. premium)
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An early Zurich silver gilt travel cutlery set

Comprising knife, fork, and spoon with hexagonal handles and terminals formed as female herms. In the original gold embossed leather case. L of spoon 16.8; of knife 18.4 cm. Weight of spoon 40 g.
Marks of Hans Conrad Deucher, ca. 1650.

Literature

Cf. a Baroque tankard and a covered tankard by Deucher in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zurich, illus. in: Gruber, weltliches Silber, Bern 1977, no. 230, 290. for this type cf. ibid., no. 418.