Paul Ingermann

Large Dresden sugar bowl Silver, gilded inside. Domed foot and oval cambered body; the wall with straight folds. The domed hinged lid corresponding; on the top the engraved coat of arms of the v. Beschwitz family with baronial crown. Original lock with key. Marks: BZ Dresden with year letter L for 1736, MZ Paul Ingermann (1699 - 1746, cf. Rosenberg no. 1668 ff., 1698 f., 1781), tremolier engraving. H 11.5; W 20.5; D 15.5 cm, weight 768 g. Dresden, Paul Ingermann, 1736. Provenance Kunsthandel Dr. Helmut Seling 1986; West German private collection. Literature Paul Ingermann already held the title of court silver worker under Augustus the Strong from 1728. He was the owner of the house "An der Frauenkirche 9" until his death. Cf. Ulli Arnold, Dresdner Hofsilber des 18. Jahrhunderts, publication of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Berlin/Dresden 1994, p. 31, and, on the master's mark, p. 51.