Elegant Silver Sugar Bowl by Master Jean Gaudet, circa 1790.

Silver. Crafted with four pierced, filigree-adorned feet supporting a smooth rectangular body. Central hinged lid. The front features an applied decorative strip with a pearl-shaped handle functioning as a pusher and a keyhole. The key is missing. Signature, tremulous strike, marks mostly of master Jean Gaudet (became master in 1764), Prussian tax stamp from 1809. Weight approximately 340 grams. Height 9 cm, dimensions 13.3 cm by 9 cm. See Scheffler, Berlin, BZ 11, 30a, no. 978, MZ 174; Scheffler, Silver Sugar Bowls in Germany 1700-1840, p. 123, fig. 120 (box form and BZ). An elegant German neoclassical silver sugar bowl by master Jean Gaudet (master since 1764). The key is missing. Assay, marks, and master’s stamp, Prussian tax stamp from 1809. German. Berlin. Circa 1790.