Carl David Schrödel

Hot milk jug from the Dresden court silverware Silver; gilded inside. Cylindrical body on a sturdy base ring with a wooden handle on the side and a short, high spout. The domed hinged lid with baluster knob. Below the base the engraved monogram "FA im Schilde unter Kurhut", underneath the inventory number 6. and a weight indication "2 Mr. 4 lt. 1 q. 3 d.". Marks: BZ Dresden with year letter F for 1755, MZ Carl David Schrödel (1741 - 1773, Rosenberg no. 1671, 1705 ff., 1807), tremolier engraving. H 14.6 cm, weight 560 g. Dresden, Carl David Schrödel, 1755. After the death of his father, Augustus the Strong, in Warsaw in 1733, Frederick Augustus II (1696 - 1763) became Elector of Saxony. In the same year, he ordered a revision of the richly filled court silver collection, which contained at least six extensive services, some of which consisted of several hundred pieces (cf. Arnold p. 31). Frederick Augustus II had some of the earlier sets melted down, but new services were also ordered in return. The Dresden goldsmith families Ingermann and Schrödel, who had repeatedly produced court jewelers since 1724, played a decisive role in the redesign of the court silver holdings. In a newly created "Churfürstl.-Sächßl. Silber-Kammer-Inventarium", the head kitchen master and court economic director Melchior Heinrich v. Breitenbauch also noted in 1789 in Volume 2, Chapter III, Section 9 "An Silbernen Thee und Cafe Zeuge" ("On silver tea and cafe witnesses") "Zweÿ große glatt runde Cafe oder Milchkannen ohne Bäuche, innenig vergoldet (...) mit FA im Schilde" ("Two large smooth round cafe or milk jugs without bellies, gilded on the inside (...) with FA in the shield"); including our "No. 6" with the weights in marks, percents, quent and pfennigs indicated in the engraving. Provenance Private collection Luxembourg; verst. Lempertz A. 622, June 1987, lot 1433; Kunsthandel Fritz Payer, Zurich; West German private collection. Literature On the court silver collection, see above all Ulli Arnold, Dresdner Hofsilber des 18. Jahrhunderts, publication of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Berlin/Dresden 1994, p. 30 ff., and, on the Schrödels' master marks, ibid. p. 51.