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Stor glassbolle, med ring i sølv og blå emalje.Stemplet J. Tostrup Oslo 1935. Bollen er antatt designet av Torolf Prytz

Stor glassbolle m/sølv og emalje, Prytz, Tostrup Oslo.

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Tesil med vindusemalje, stemplet MH 900.

Tesil, Marius Hammer

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Vase med speilemalje m/ blomsterdekor.Ant. Ludwig Wittmann for David Andersen

Emaljevase, Wittmann /  David Andersen

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Stor skje dekorert med vindusemalje.

Stor skje i vindusemalje

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Askebeger i sterling sølv, stemplet Tostrup.Designet av Grete Prytz Kittelsen.

Askebeger, Prytz Kittelsen, Tostrup

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Forgylt barokk sølvkanne m/ rikt drevet dekor. Stemplet "AS 1749" ant. Anton Schuch, Augsburg.

Barokk sølvkanne,  1749

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Lysestale i sølv og emalje, designet av Grete Prytz Kittelsen. Ang. kun laget i 2 ekspemparer, og ble stilt ut på Steen og Strøms juleutstilling .

Lysestake, GPK, Tostrup

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Large silver tankard, covered with medal, coins and baroque flower engraving. Inside the lid: a large family crest for Duchy of Courland and Semigallia.Engraved M.D.V.W. Ao 1712 below the rim. Makers Mark on each side of the handle: "MR" and branch/twig, supposingly Michael Müllenhoff ca. 1660-1690, and Mitau/Jelgava The&nbsp;Duchy of Courland and Semigallia<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Courland_and_Semigallia#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[a]</a>&nbsp;was a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">duchy</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Baltic region</a>, then known as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Livonia</a>, that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a nominal&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vassal state</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grand Duchy of Lithuania</a>&nbsp;and subsequently made part of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_the_Polish_Kingdom" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Crown of the Polish Kingdom</a>&nbsp;from 1569 to 1726<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Courland_and_Semigallia#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a>&nbsp;and incorporated into the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a>&nbsp;in 1726.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Courland_and_Semigallia#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a>&nbsp;On October 24, 1795, it was annexed by the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russian Empire</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Partition_of_Poland" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Third Partition of Poland</a>. In 1561, during the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_Wars" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Livonian Wars</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_Confederation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Livonian Confederation</a>&nbsp;was dismantled and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_Order" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Livonian Order</a>&nbsp;was disbanded. On the basis of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Vilnius_(1561)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Treaty of Vilnius</a>, the southern part of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Estonia</a>&nbsp;and the northern part of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Latvia</a>&nbsp;were ceded to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grand Duchy of Lithuania</a>. On 25 December 1566, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Grodno_(1566)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Union of Grodno</a>&nbsp;established a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_union" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">real union</a>&nbsp;between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Livonia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Duchy of Livonia</a>. The part of Latvia between the west bank of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daugava_River" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daugava River</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Baltic Sea</a>&nbsp;became the Duchy of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courland" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Courland</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigallia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Semigallia</a>. It was ruled by the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dukes</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Kettler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House of Kettler</a>&nbsp;with the exception of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Johann_von_Biron" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ernst Johann Biron</a>&nbsp;and his son&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_von_Biron" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter von Biron</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Kettler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gotthard Kettler</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Courland_and_Semigallia#cite_note-archiv.org.lv-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a>&nbsp;the last Master of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_Order" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Livonian Order</a>, became the first&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Courland" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">duke of Courland</a>. Other members of the Order became the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couronian_nobility" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Couronian nobility</a>, with the fiefdoms they had hitherto held becoming their estates. In all, Kettler received nearly one-third of the land in the new duchy.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitau" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mitau</a>&nbsp;(Jelgava) was designated as the new capital, and a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landtag" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landtag</a>&nbsp;was to meet there twice a year.Several parts of the Courish area did not belong to the Duchy. The Order of Livonia had already loaned the Grobiņa district (on the coast of Baltic Sea) to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Prussia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Duke of Prussia</a>. Another district, the former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishopric_of_Courland" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bishopric of Courland</a>, belonged to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Magnus_of_Holstein" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Magnus</a>, son of the king of Denmark. He promised to transfer it to the Duchy of Courland after his death, but this plan failed and only later did&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Kettler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wilhelm Kettler</a>regain this district.Like the other members of the Order, Kettler was German and set about establishing the Duchy along the lines of similar German states. In 1570, he issued the&nbsp;Privilegium Gotthardinum, which allowed the landholders to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">enserf</a>&nbsp;the native peasantry on their lands.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Courland_and_Semigallia#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a>When Gotthard Kettler died in 1587, his sons,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Kettler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Friedrich</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Kettler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wilhelm</a>, became the dukes of Courland. They divided the Duchy into two parts in 1596. Friedrich controlled the eastern part,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigalia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Semigalia</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemgale" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zemgale</a>), with his residence in Mitau (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelgava" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jelgava</a>). Wilhelm owned the western part, Courland (Kurzeme), with his residence in Goldingen (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuld%C4%ABga" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kuldīga</a>). Wilhelm regained the Grobiņa district when he married the daughter of the Duke of Prussia. He also paid out and regained control over the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Pilten" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">District of Pilten</a>, but eventually, it fell to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Here he developed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalwork" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">metalworking</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipyard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shipyards</a>, and the new ships delivered the goods of Courland to other countries.However, relations between the duke and the landowners were quite hostile. In addition, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a>, which was the overlord of the Duchy of Courland, supported the landowners. Wilhelm expressed his disappointment with the landowners, but this ended with his removal from the duke's seat in 1616. Finally, Wilhelm left Courland and spent the rest of his life abroad. Thus, Friedrich became the only duke of Courland after 1616.From 1600 to 1629, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sweden</a>&nbsp;conducted a war with its main battlefields around&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Riga</a>. As a result, Sweden gained control of what is today central and northern&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Latvia</a>, which became&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Livonia_(1629%E2%80%931721)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Swedish Livonia</a>. The Commonwealth retained the eastern part of the Duchy of Livonia, thereafter called&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflanty_Voivodeship" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inflanty Voivodeship</a>&nbsp;in Polish. Courland was also involved in this war, but did not suffer severe damage.Under the next duke,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Kettler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jacob Kettler</a>, the Duchy reached the peak of its prosperity. During his travels in Western Europe, Jacob became a eager proponent of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mercantilist</a>&nbsp;ideas. Metalworking and shipbuilding became much more developed, and powder mills began producing gunpowder. Trading relations developed not only with nearby countries but also with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Britain</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_France" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">France</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Netherlands</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Portugal</a>. Jacob established the merchant fleet of the Duchy of Courland, with its main harbours in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventspils" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ventspils</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liep%C4%81ja" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Libau</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Courland_and_Semigallia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Courland_and_Semigallia</a>

A rare baroque silver  tankard, Coat of Arms of House of Kettler, Dukes of Courland and Semigallia

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Fyrstikketui i sølv, gravert R.A. Sydney April 1912.Sølvsmedens mestermerke på baksiden. Etuiet har tilhørt Roald Amundsen og ble gitt i gave til Harald Grieg etter sydpolekspedisjonen.

Fyrstikketui, Roald Amundsen / Harald Grieg

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Vase med hvit og blomstret speilemalje, stemplet David Andersen.Ant. designet og laget av Gustav Gaudernack

Emaljevase, Gustav Gaudernack /  David Andersen

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Skål i vindusemalje

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Skje med vindusemalje, med firkantet skjeblad.

Skje med firkantet blad

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Rokokko punchøse, i plett m/treskaft. (*)

Rokokko punchøse

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Mokkakopp m/underskål i matt forgylt sølv og turkis speilemalje.Stempel: 925s.Gustav Gaudernack (1865-1914) for David-Andersen, ca. 1890.

Mokkakopp #2  Gustav Gaudernack

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Mokkakopp m/underskål i forgylt sølv og blålilla speilemalje.Stempel: 925s.Gustav Gaudernack (1865-1914) for David-Andersen, ca. 1890.