Christian Lieberkühn d.Ä. Lot n° 47

Museal Régence toilet mirror Silver, original faceted mirror glass. The rectangular, multi-profiled mirror frame with beveled round arch above a wooden body covered in red velvet. Both sides with narrow pilasters and attached vases above volutes and flower hangings. Engraved weight "3 M. 2 1/2 loth" at the lower end. Verso an old adhesive label "Exl. v. Pohl, Bonn Schedestr, 13 II." Marks: BZ Berlin c. 1730, MZ Christian Lieberkühn the Elder (court goldsmith, 1701 - 1733, Scheffler Berlin no. 1, 90). The marks overlaid with BZ Potsdam, MZ Christian Gottlieb Kelle (also: Kelly, c. 1722 - 1749, court goldsmith from 1732, Scheffler Central Germany no. 530a, 546a), tremolier engraving. H 60.5; W 46.5 cm. Berlin/Potsdam, Christian Lieberkühn the Elder and Christian Gottlieb Kelle, around 1730. Scheffler mentions several silver frames by Lieberkühn commissioned for the Berlin City Palace between 1730 and 1733, as well as mirrors for the Princes Dohna at Schlobitten Castle. The younger Christian Gottlieb Kelle is mentioned as court silversmith to Frederick William I in Potsdam in 1732. He may have taken over the mirror from his predecessor's workshop, as his master's mark and the Potsdam inspection mark overlap Lieberkühn's Berlin marks. Kelle carried out commissions from the Prussian court until the 1740s - and was granted the privilege of making all the silver trumpets for the Prussian army under Frederick II in 1743. Provenance Formerly Hugo v. Pohl Collection, Bonn (1855 - 1916); 1999 Kunsthandel Volker Westphal and Astrid v. Bethmann-Hollweg, Berlin; since then private collection Baden-Württemberg. Literature On Lieberkühn's mirror frames, see Friedrich Sarre, Die Berliner Goldschmiede-Zunft von ihrem Entstehen bis zum Jahre 1800, Berlin 1895, p. 80 f.