Large Classiclst Pair of Tureens of Duke Friedrich August of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Oels

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Christian Eduard Franke-Landwers Christoph Freiherr von Seckendorff

Description

Wroclaw, Tobias Meyer and Gottlieb Benjamin Vogtmann, 1792

The imposing pair of silver tureens stands on the original presentoires. Both tureens have

preserved the original interior gilding. The pair was commissioned by Duke Friedrich August of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Oels in 1792 and made in Breslau by Tobias Meyer and Gottlieb Benjamin Vogtmann.

Duke Friedrich August married Friederike Sophie, Princess of Württemberg-Oels, in 1768 and was enfeoffed with the Lower Silesian Duchies of Oels and Bernstadt in 1792 after the death of his father-in-law.

A single additional tureen from the workshop has been preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Hallmarks on all parts (Hintze Breslau, Hallmark. No. 22, year letter K, master's marks No. 173 and 175).

Lit. Hintze, Die Breslauer Goldschmiede, 1906, plate V, no. 173 and 175.

50 x 42 x 32 cm, weight approx. 11400 gr

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