Magnificent Rococo silver sugar bowl. Ovoid, strongly bulbous body supported by four flared leaf feet in relief with a domed hinged lid. Body wall and lid lavishly decorated with flame-like rocailles in relief, C-sweeps and flowering branches. The handle on the front in the form of volutes in relief, the center decorated with a figurative rocaille. Marked, tremolier line, hallmark, master Friedrich Ludwig Müller (becomes master 1759), elder man's letter "K". Weight approx. 295 g. H. 11 cm. 15.5 cm x 11.5 cm. Cf. Scheffler, Niedersachsen, vol. 1, no. 494, figs. 150, 154. A Brunswick Rococo silver sugar box by Friedrich Ludwig Müller (master since 1759). Test, assay marks and master's mark. German. Brunswick. Circa 1760.

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