From Landgrave Carl and Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Kassel's Silver Service:
A pair of Danish, Rococo and fluted extremely rare silver serving dishes, originally named “Asschietter”, of circular shape, shallow well with upturned dish rim, here at the top engraved with a princely crowned Danish-Hesse alliance coat of arms, curved-fluted and lobed-profiled edge. Engraved on the reverse with resp. numbering and statement of weight: “N=3 W=2u 16 lod” and “N=7 W=2u 16 lod”. The latter is furthermore later engraved with a princely crown on the lowest part of the dish rim. Maker Christopher Jonsen, Copenhagen 1766, assayer Christopher Fabritius (active 1749–1787), lion month mark (July 22-August 21). Weight 2.170 g. Diam. 29.7 cm. (2)
Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel (1744–1836) married Princess Louise of Denmark (1750–1831), daughter of King Frederik V, in 1766. Landgravine Louise was very close to her brother, King Christian VII of Denmark, who also gave the bride and groom a fine silver service. This silver service is described in detail by Jørgen Hein in his article “Spredt for alle vinde. Et sølvservice til prinsesse Louises bryllup med Landgreve Carl of Hessen 1766”. It is printed in the work ”Dansk Sølv i fortid og nutid”, Copenhagen 2020, vol. 2, pp. 472–488. Here, for example, is an invoice and a complete description of the entire service, which was made according to the French model and comprisend over 400 parts, which could be enough to set a table for 36 people. It was, among other things, two tureens, dishes, plates, cutlery, serving pieces, candlesticks and salt cellars. It is from this invoice with a description of the individual parts that the present serving dishes can be verified as “Aschietter”. The Landgravine’s will stated that her daughter, Duchess Louise of Glücksburg, was to inherit all silverware from the Landgrave couple. She was married to Duke Wilhelm of Glücksburg and they were the parents of, among others, Duke Carl of Glücksburg, Duke Friedrich of Glücksburg, Duchess Friederike of Anhalt-Bernburg and King Christian IX of Denmark. The Landgrave couple’s large silver service remained with the family at Glücksburg Castle but Jørgen Hein believes that the most has been lost and only few items have been preserved until today. These are two tureens (see more information on this online auction lot no. 8142) as well as five similar dishes like this present lot no. and five elongated dishes. These ten dishes are in Danish private ownership. The existence of the two dishes auctioneed here have unknown until now.
For more information about the Landgrave couple, see present online auction lot no. 8011.
Provenance: ”The Historical Collection of Four Princesses From the Cavalier House of Glücksburg Castle”. The cultural heritage after the sisters, Her Highness Princess Elisabeth of Ysenburg and Büdingen, née Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1945–2024), Her Highness Princess Irene of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1946), Her Highness Princess Margaretha of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1948), and Her Highness Princess Sibylla Ursula of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1955). Online auction no. 2545 at Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers in Lyngby, 3 November, 2025.
Naturlig alders- og brugsslitage, inkl. nogle få og mindre mærker samt flere ridser af varierende grad, nogle overflade og nogle lidt dybere.
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