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Sat 04 May

Paula Straus, teapot and sugar bowl, model 13024, ca. 1926, 800 silver - Paula Straus, teapot and sugar bowl, model 13024, ca. 1926, 800 silver designed ca. 1926 Teapot and sugar bowl. Model no. 13024. Parts of a service, by Paula Straus, designed for Bruckmann & Söhne, Heilbronn, around 1926. 800 silver, pressed and hammered. Knob and handle made of ebony. Teapot: 10 x 28.8 cm, D. 17.5 cm/Sugar bowl: 8 x 17.5 cm, D. 13.3 cm. 634 or 297 grams. Inscribed on the underside: A. Horn / half moon, crown, 800, eagle (company mark) / No. 13024. This is the early version of the service, which is considered very rare. It was exhibited in this form in 1927 at the famous exhibition in the Grassi Museum, Leipzig 'Europäisches Kunstgewerbe' (European Decorative Arts) alongside works from the Bauhaus and other top works of European design. This can be seen, for example, in the shape of the handles of the sugar bowl. They take up the circular shape and combine disc and ball, while later versions only have disc-shaped handles in silver. This service from the first modern industrial designer became the successful model for the Bruckmann company and also marked the breakthrough for Paula Straus. With this tremendous success, the company went to the first major exhibition 'Europäisches Kunstgewerbe' (European Decorative Arts) in Leipzig in 1927, in which the first international comparison of 'works of craftsmanship and the decorative arts industry' on German soil took place. From 1924 onwards, Paula Straus, who had previously been influenced by Expressionism, designed objective and functionally designed objects. She had recently become a member of the Werkbund and was represented with three objects at the traveling exhibition 'Die Form ohne Ornament' (Form without Ornament) in Stuttgart in 1924. In 1925, Straus received a solo exhibition at the renowned Mannheim Municipal Art Gallery. The critics then put her on a par with Dagobert Peche, Emil Lettré, Anny Hystak and Georg Jensen. (Siebenmorgen pp. 39-41) Literature: Harald Siebenmorgen (ed.), FrauenSilber-Paula Straus, Emily Roth & Co. Silversmiths of the Bauhaus era. Exhibition cat. Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Bröhan-Museum Berlin, Karlsruhe 2011, p. 52, (illustration of the same model coffee and tea service from the Stuttgart State Museum), p. 53 (coffee and tea service Brohan Museum), cat. no. 2 and 3 (see cf.). Literature: Die Form, H. 2, 1927, S. 142f. (Service komplett und Einzelteile). (Zum Vgl.).

Estim. 6 000 - 9 000 EUR

Sun 05 May

Le Maréchal de camp comte Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart. Shooting pistol case for Monsieur le Comte de Rochechouart. Mahogany veneered, with four reinforcing corners, oval plate, brass miter and keyhole, sheathed inside in royal blue velvet. Opened, it features: A pair of blued, patinated percussion pistols. Barrels round to the muzzles, decorated with gold edging, with thunderbolts, adorned with a semiset of stars on an amatized background, a stylized fleur-de-lys and hallmarked "R.N.F" in an oval. Breech pins numbered "1" and "2". Lock plates signed "Paris" and flat-bodied hammers engraved with animals. Cut-out, finely engraved steel fittings. Finger rests, covered urn fronts. Adjustable triggers. Hemmed counterplates. Steel oval knobs engraved with "Le Maréchal de camp Comte de Rochechouart". Marbled light walnut mounts. Crosses with long barrels carved with grooves and, on the barrels, with the Count's figure under a crown, enriched with a Legion of Honor. Fanon sticks with horn and brass tips. And accessories: rosewood mallet, ebony screwdriver, brass capsule dispenser, green morocco-covered powder flask, oiler, wooden cleaning rod, bronze loading rod. Caliber: 12 mm. Length: 39.5 cm. Cassette: 27.5 x 45 x Ht. 8 cm. B.E. for the set. Antique but later casing. Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart, (1788-1858), French general. Born a few months before the Revolution, he was forced to flee Paris in 1794 at the age of six, due to his mother's activism in trying to escape Queen Marie-Antoinette. Louis-Victor-Léon was then taken in by his uncle, the Duc de Richelieu, governor of Odessa in the service of the Russians, and over the years became their adopted son. He entered the Russian army with the rank of second lieutenant and became aide-de-camp to the Duc de Richelieu. He rose through the ranks, successively becoming lieutenant in the Imperial Guard, then aide-de-camp to Emperor Alexander I. From 1805 to 1812, he took part in the conquest of Bessarabia and Circassia, and fought in the Caucasus and Chechnya. When France invaded Russia in 1812, he was drafted into General Tormassov's army. He took part in the capture of Minsk, then the Battle of the Berezina. In 1813, he was awarded the Order of St. George, 4th class. Appointed colonel, then general-major, he took part in the German campaign and the battles of Lutzen, Dresden, Kulm and Leipzig. In early 1814, he crossed the Rhine with the Russian army and returned to France. He made contact with the future Louis XVIII and Charles X, and helped create a royalist party. Louis-Victor-Léon took part in the French campaign, at the battles of Arcis-sur-Aube and La Fère-Champenoise. He also took part in the Battle of Paris. Appointed commander of the Place de Paris, he captured the Hôtel de Ville on March 31. Promoted to maréchal de camp by Louis XVIII, he joined the company of musketeers. On August 29, 1814, he was made a knight of the Order of Saint-Louis. During the Hundred Days, he accompanied the King to Ghent. Back in France during the Second Restoration, he became Chief of Staff to the Minister of War, first to the Duc de Feltre, then to Marshal de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, and again to the Duc de Feltre when his adoptive father, the Duc de Richelieu, was appointed Prime Minister. On October 16, 1815, the Comte de Rochechouart was appointed military governor of Paris, a post he held until 1821. In 1821, Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart was appointed Gentleman of the King's Chamber and made Commander of the Legion of Honor. In 1855, Napoleon III appointed General de Rochechouart mayor of Jumilhac, where he had retired and where he died in 1858.

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR