Johann Tobias Langenbeck

Magdeburg coffee pot Silver. A pear-shaped body on an oval foot with a console spout and wooden handle; the high domed hinged lid with a sculpted floral branch finial. The wall and the lid with rich, chased and chased rocaille and flower decoration. Dot-engraved monogram "SDP" on the underside above the date 1786. marks: BZ Magdeburg, soldering stamp 12, MZ Johann Tobias Langenbeck (mentioned from 1738, cf. Scheffler Mitteldeutschland no. 356, 363b, 386). H 28 cm, weight 744 g. Magdeburg, Johann Tobias Langenbeck, around 1770. Provenance Formerly Kunsthandel Eberhard Giese, Cologne; Cologne private collection, auctioned Lempertz auction 955, lot 463; Rhenish private collection. Literature Cf. a pair of jugs by the master, illustrated in cat. Baroque Silver from Rhenish Collections, Aachen 1964, no. 307, fig. 223. The present jug is mentioned and illustrated in Scheffler 1980, p. 176, fig. 26.