Casket
1773-1775 (made)
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This casket was almost certainly part of a toilet service (from French 'toilette', a little cloth to wrap toiletries). A toilet service included a mirror, candlesticks, brushes, flasks and caskets of different sizes. This one, locked with a key (originally secured to the small ring on the foot) probably contained powder. The maker, Gottlieb Satzger (1709-1783) was the son of the goldsmith Philipp Jakob, and worked in Augsburg. His surviving works are mostly pieces for toilet services, and this is a particularly fine example of his skill. The curving forms, foliage ornament and sinuous, asymmetrical designs based on shell forms are typical of the 'rococo' style that was fashionable in the mid-eighteenth century.
Object details
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Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Silver-gilt, embossed, chased and cast. |
Brief description | Oval with bombé contours, silver-gilt, chased and embossed, a hunting scene (a man on horseback with two hounds corralling a stag into a net), fruit and flowers on the lid, embossed and applied roccoco ornament on the body and foot. |
Physical description | Oval with bombé contours, silver-gilt, chased and embossed, a hunting scene, fruit and flowers on the lid, embossed and applied rococo ornament on the body and foot. |
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Gallery label | 5. TOILET BOX
SOUTH GERMAN (Augsburg); mark for 1773-5
Silver-gilt, decorated with a hunting scene and ornamental motifs
Mark of Gottlieb Satzger
A toilet set by Satzger containing very similar boxes with the mark for 1757-9, made for Duke Carl Eugen of Wurtemberg, is now in the Wurtembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart.(1970-1980) |
Object history | Nothing is known of the original circumstances of the commission, though Satzger and his brother Johann Martin I produced many of the finest examples of this type of casket for wealthy and princely patrons. The (later) devices on the base remain unidentified. The casket was part of the large collection of objects (more than three thousand) lent to the Museum by the dealer and collector J. H. Fitzhenry. On his death in 1913, the Museum purchased the casket for £40. |
Summary | This casket was almost certainly part of a toilet service (from French 'toilette', a little cloth to wrap toiletries). A toilet service included a mirror, candlesticks, brushes, flasks and caskets of different sizes. This one, locked with a key (originally secured to the small ring on the foot) probably contained powder. The maker, Gottlieb Satzger (1709-1783) was the son of the goldsmith Philipp Jakob, and worked in Augsburg. His surviving works are mostly pieces for toilet services, and this is a particularly fine example of his skill. The curving forms, foliage ornament and sinuous, asymmetrical designs based on shell forms are typical of the 'rococo' style that was fashionable in the mid-eighteenth century. |
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Accession number | M.137:1-1913 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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