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by Dorothea Burstyn
 

The Antique Silver Industry of Hanau

Part 1 - Endnotes

1)

Claude Blair, The History of Silver (New York,1987), p.160

2)

Bebenhausen near Thuebingen was a hunting castle built for King Karl and Queen Olga of Wuerttemberg. Many of the silver items were direct orders to Schleissner but other were bought from the art dealer Eduard Foehr. Reproduction silver in various styles was ordered so as to suggest a “Wunderkammer” - a cabinet of curiosities - in the manner of Rudolph II. See: Bruno Wilhelm Thiele, Tafel und Schausilber des Historismus aus Hanau (Thuebingen,1992) p.77

3)

Ina Schneider and Ekkehard Schmidberger, Hanauer und Kasseler Silber, Sonderdruck fuer die Kunstsammlungen Kassel (Kassel, 1981), p.49

4)

John Culme, The Directory of Gold-and Silversmiths, Jewellers & Allied Trade, Vol.1 Woodbrige, 1987) p.335 ff.

5)

Wolfgang Scheffler, Die Goldschmiede Hessens, Daten, Werke, Zeichen (Berlin, New York, 1976), p.520 ff

6)

Thiele, p.31

7)

Group exhibitions of the Hanau antique silver industry include Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Chicago 1893, Paris 1900, and St.Louis 1904.

8)

Thiele, p.183

9)

Schneider,p.51

10)

Culme,p.336

11)

Thiele, p.22

Additional Bibliography

Canthal,Fritz: Buergertum zwischen zwei Revolutionen 1848-1918, Lebenserinnerungen eines juedischen Unternehmers aus Hanau/Main. Hanau, 1992

Egger, Gerhart: Gold-und Silberschaetze in Kopien des Historismus, Ausstellung des Oesterr.Museums fuer angewandte Kunst im Schloss Grafenegg, 1972-1973

Fritz, Rolf, Sammlung August Neresheimer, Vol.1 and 2, Hamburg 1974

Hansen, Hans Juergen,Das pompoese Zeitalter, Zwischen Biedermeier und Jugendstil. Oldenburg & Hamburg, 1970

Seelig, Lorenz: “Jagdliche Motive in der Goldschmiedekunst” Weltkunst Magazine, February 1989, p.233

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