Elegant, classicist silver sugar box. Rectangular, smooth body supported by four slender feet. Hinged lid, gently rising in the center. Keyhole on the front. Key missing. Marked, tremolier stroke, hallmark, master from the Müller family of silversmiths. Weight approx. 340 g. H. 7.3 cm. 12.3 cm x 8.5 cm. Cf. Scheffler, Berlin, BZ 12, no. 600 B; Scheffler, Silberne Zuckerdosen in Deutschland 1700 - 1840, p. 123, fig. 120 (box form). An elegant German Neoclassical silver sugar casket by a master from the Müller family in Berlin. Key missing. Test, assay and master's mark. German. Berlin. Circa 1804-1815.

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