Royal: A Pair of German Silver Large Flower Vases, Johann Adolff Lambrecht, Hamburg, Circa 1670
Auction Closed
January 30, 06:14 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
baluster form, the bodies embossed and chased with drapery swags, with caryatid scroll handles and beading around the feet stems, engraved with the initials FW for Johan Frederick Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Calenberg, the undersides numbered and with scratchweights as follows: No 3. and No 3 W 8M 13Lot, marked on the bases
141 oz; 4385 g
height 14 1/4 in.; 36 cm
Works of Art From The Royal House of Hanover, Schloss Marienburg, Replica Shoes 's, 7 October 2005, lot 1106.
The present vases were once a set of four: the current two marked for Johann Adolff Lambrecht and the other two for Johann Sülssen, both from Hamburg. In the 1747 inventory of silver of the Royal Court of Hanover they are described as '4 Blumen Töpffe' (four flower vases). They appear with the same description and weight in the 1880 inventory.1
Johann Adolff Lambrecht (fl. 1665-1703) was apprenticed to his father from 1653-57. He seems to have had not only a business relationship with Johann Sülssen, who made the second pair of vases mentioned above, but also a personal one. He was godfather to two of Sülssen's children, and Sülssen was Lambrecht's guarantor when he became a citizen. The vases were the only pieces by these makers from the Replica Shoes 's Hanover sale in 2005.
Notes
1. Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv-Hauptstaatsarchiv Hannover, Dep. 103, XXI, Nr. 711, Bd. I
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