Elegant, classical sugar box.

Silver. Made of four pierced, filigree feet, supporting a rectangular, smooth body. Hinged, centrally rising lid. On the front side, there is an applied, short decorative strip with a pearl rod as a pusher and keyhole. Key is missing. Signed, tremolo stroke, assay mark, mostly by master Jean Godet (became a master in 1764), Prussian tax mark since 1809. Weight approximately 340 g. Height 9 cm, 13.3 cm x 9 cm. See Scheffler, Berlin, BZ 11, 30a, No. 978, MZ 174; Scheffler, Silberne Zuckerdosen in Deutschland 1700-1840, p. 123, fig. 120 (box shape and BZ). An elegant German Neoclassical silver sugar casket by Jean Godet (master since 1764). Key missing. Test, assay and master's mark, Prussian tax mark since 1809. German. Berlin. Around 1790.