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Lot 1021 Dα

A large enamelled Vienna silver cup and cover

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
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A large enamelled Vienna silver cup and cover

Domed base supporting a slender baluster-form shaft with a central node and a tall cup with gadrooning in the lower third. Domed slip lid crowned by a figure of a soldier making music. Decorated throughout with grotesques painted in polychrome enamel surrounding oval medallions with rustic genre scenes. H 71 cm, weight 3,260 g.
Marks of Karl Rössler, around 1900.

Karl Rössler registered his silverware firm in Vienna in 1890. According to a calendar from 1898, they specialised in "Decorative items in gold and silver. - Enamel and antique imitation."

Literature

Cf. a drinking horn by Karl Rössler in the collection of Achim Neuse and Volker Wurster, illus. in cat. Macht und Pracht, Europas Glanz im 19. Jahrhundert, Völklinger Hütte 2006, unpag.