A Danish Baroque silver caster, baluster finial on domed and detachable cover with engraved and pierced leaf ornamentation, cylinder shaped body, profiled base rim with gadrooned border, front engraved with two noble coat of arms, the left for Baron Malte Podebusk, the right for Countess Magdalena Juliana von Promnitz, flanked by two supporters. Maker Søren Pedersen, Odense c. 1701–1744. Weight 262 g. H. 17 cm.
Malte Podebusk (1671–1750), also called Malte von Putbus, was a Danish baron of Einsiedelsborg on Funen Island and married in 1697 Countess Magdalena Juliana von Promnitz (1666–1728) from Saxony. In 1704, he inherited Pusbus Castle on the north-east German island of Rügen and in 1727 he became a German reichsgrave.
Provenance: The Collection of Käthe & John Marsing.