Service à café et thé de cinq pièces de style Louis XV en argent, 835/000 et 925/000, marque de maïtre M.T. Wetzlar, 20ème siècle

48,2 x 38 cm (the tray)

H 25 - L 22 cm (the coffee pot)

H 20 - L 26 cm (the teapot)

H 12,5 - L 13,5 cm (the milk jug)

H 7 cm - Dia.: 12,5 cm (the suger bowl)

Total weight: 3179 g

Ref.:

- Florian Dering, 'M.T. Wetzlar. Silversmithery in Munich (Founded in 1875 – Aryanised in 1938)', 2014: The Jewish Wetzlar family from Munich had a renowned silverware shop with an adjoining workshop, founded in 1875 and located on Maximilianstraße, the elegant promenade in Munich. Their work was based on their own as well as artists’ designs. In 1938, the Wetzlar family were forced to abandon the business following the ‘Aryanisation’ and they emigrated to London, thereby escaping persecution by the National Socialists, but losing their livelihood. From 1938, the brothers Friedrich and Leonhard Kleemann benefitted from this, carrying on the shop and the workshop into the post-war era.