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Objekt 11

Sugar bowl with spoon rack

Description

For the expensive cane sugar, goldsmiths developed a new type of vessel that combined the sugar bowl with a spoon holder. The inserted coffee spoons were made by a different goldsmith (Emanuel Peter Herzog) than the sugar bowl.

Object description

Goldsmith: Johann Jakob II. Burckhardt (1694-1755)

Basel, around 1730

Silver, chased, cast, engraved

Inv. 1929.273.

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