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18th C. Danish Silver Sugar Caster, Copenhagen 1776
18th C. Danish Silver Sugar Caster, Copenhagen 1776
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Northern Europe, Denmark, Copenhagen, ca. 1776 CE. A baluster-form sugar caster wrought in Danish silver of 84.8% purity, rising on a stepped circular foot engraved with a guilloche band and ascending through a gadrooned lower body to a swelling belly chased in repousse with swagged garlands of full-blown roses and pendant blossoms. The neck draws inward beneath a domed, pierced cover whose lattice of quatrefoils and trellised ribs allows fine sugar to drift through in a controlled snowfall, the whole crowned by a budded finial that recalls the rosettes below. The Rococo vocabulary, floral festoons, baluster silhouette, and pierced canopy, places the piece firmly within the late eighteenth-century Copenhagen tradition, when refined sugar remained an emblem of prosperous tables and its dispensing vessel was wrought with corresponding ceremony. The underside carries a constellation of hallmarks: the three towers of the Danish national assay with the date numeral 76, the Scorpio month-mark M indicating an assay in October or November, the assay master's F for Christopher Fabritius (active 1749 to 1787), and the maker's mark NP paired again with 76. Together these stamps locate the caster precisely to autumn 1776, a moment when Copenhagen's silversmiths were translating French Rococo idioms into a distinctly Northern register. Size: 3" D x 7.1" H (7.6 cm D x 18.0 cm H); silver quality: 84.8%; total weight: 188.3 grams.

Provenance: private Loveland, Colorado, USA collection, acquired in April 2004 via Anouk Miga Antiquaire, Maastricht, Netherlands

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  • Condition: Excellent. Slight bending to knob at top, but, otherwise, intact and in excellent overall condition.

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