Antique European Filigree: Some 17th and 18th Century Silver Filigree in Dutch Museums. Part 3. Filigree basket

Saturday 4 February 2023

Some 17th and 18th Century Silver Filigree in Dutch Museums. Part 3. Filigree basket

Some 17th and 18th Century Filigree in Dutch Museums.

Part 3.

Two Baskets in Dutch Museums, another at Burghley House and another adapted as a teapot.

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1. Silver Filigree Basket with Handle

Dutch Museums.

A very annoying website it displays the contents of four different Museums Amsterdam, Rotterdam Leiden

https://collectie.wereldculturen.nl/#/query/1b09dc66-1af4-4dae-ab7c-42d18be2f5b4

use this page and search "filigraanwerk"

Approx. 18cms

Inventory No. TM-229-93

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2. Silver Filigree Basket.

Dutch Museum.

Size 26,5 x 9,5 x 9,5cms.

Museum Inventory No.TM-229-65.

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/76298

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The Burghley Silver Filigree Basket.

Diam. 12 cms.

https://collections.burghley.co.uk/collection/a-silver-filigree-basket-early-18th-century/

The Burghley website states that there is also an accompanying shaped circular dish on three feet, not shown here, diameter also 12cm.

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Silver teapot within a silver filigree case handle.

Web pictures used here, I will return to the subject in due course once I discover the source of these images.

Update 19 October 2023- here is the link to this object with dealers.

https://www.aardewerk.com/silver-archives/a-filigree-teapot-on-stand/

A. Aardwerke, Jan van Nassaustraat 76 2596 BV The Hague, Netherlands.

https://www.aardewerk.com/

18th Century Silver Teapot within a late 17th Century Silver Filigree Basket.

Adapted by Silversmith Alger Mensma.

Hallmarked 1722. The silver teapot and the silver stand are both fully hallmarked with the Amsterdam marks.

Size - H 18cms, width 17 cms.

Alger Mensma was born in Leeuwarden in 1682. Ten years later he became apprentice to his father's workshop in Leeuwarden. In 1710 Mensma became a member of the Amsterdam's silversmiths guild. He was known to have specialized in table services and vessels of high quality.

Mensma died in his birthplace of Leeuwarden at some point after 1757. (see Jan Rudolph de Lorm, Amsterdams Goud en Zilver, Zwolle, 1999, pag. 519).

https://www.aardewerk.com/silver-archives/a-filigree-teapot-on-stand/