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Lot 665 D‡α

A Brussels silver coffee pot

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 3.500 € - 4.000 €
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A Brussels silver coffee pot

Baluster-form vessel with pointed spout and ivory handle on three scroll supports. Decorated throughout with repoussé laurel festoons and finely chased acanthus reliefs at the bases of the feet. The domed hinged lid with an acorn finial. The display side emblazoned with the crowned coat-of-arms of the Belgian noble family Clément de Cléty with the Royal Order of the Lion and the motto "PLUTOT MOURIR QUE TRAHIR". H 35 cm, weight 1,117 g.
Marks of Theodorus Smeesters, 1799.

Certificate

Sales permit for the EU internal has been obtained.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland Palatinate.

Literature

Cf. a coffee pot by this maker, illustrated in cat. Orfèvrerie au poinçon de Bruxelles, Brussels 1979, no. 240, p. 253. For more on Smeesters see also Piet Baudouin e. a., Edelsmeedkunst in Belgie, Tielt 1988, nos. 190, 230.