1094 - Gebrüder Deyhle, water jug, 835 silver, and bowl, Jakob Grimminger, sterling silver (925), cord rim

Gebrüder Deyhle, water jug, 835 silver, and bowl, Jakob Grimminger, sterling silver (925), cord rim 835 silver and 925 silver, jug and bowl, 1) handled jug, also water jug, Gebrüder Deyhle, Schwäbisch Gmünd, hallmarked on the base "835" and rampant lion, globular body on low, profiled foot ring, short neck with wide drawn-out spout, handle of openly twisted silver rods, plain wall, H. 20 cm. 2) Round bowl, Jakob Grimminger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, sterling silver (925), hallmarked on the wall with crescent and crown, "925", maker's mark G in a six-pointed star and "Sterling", inscribed above "SCH...LE, HANNOVER", plain, rounded wall, flared rim and domed foot ring each with applied twisted cord, D. 22.5 cm, H. 11 cm. Good condition commensurate with age. Total weight 1165 g. The silverware factory Gebrüder Deyhle was founded in 1820 by the brothers Christian Wilhelm and Gottlob Karl Deyhle in Schwäbisch Gmünd, one of the most important centres of the German silverware industry, and until its closure at the end of the 1990s was one of the oldest and largest silverware factories in the town. Its works bear the rampant lion as maker's mark. Handled jugs of this form with bulbous body, wide spout and twisted handle are placed on the table as water jugs or pouring jugs. The bowl comes from the silverware factory Jakob Grimminger, also in Schwäbisch Gmünd, whose commercial register file covers the years 1895 to 1991; its maker's mark is a G in a six-pointed star. The inscription "Scheurle, Hannover" probably refers to the Hanover jeweller Scheurle as retailer. With crescent and crown the bowl bears the German silver marking in force since 1888, and with the designation Sterling the fineness of 925 thousandths.