DUTCH SILVER TABLEBELL

Dutch silver tablebell

Gerardus Peeters

Rotterdam, 1823

211 grams all in; 15,5 cm high

The bell-shaped silver body has a profiled band with cable rim in the middle and a similar band at the edge. The silver clapper is suspended in the bell on a loop.The baluster shaped wood handle is inlaid with a spirally shaped thin silver strip and terminates in a spherical silver knob.

Gerardus Peeters (Rotterdam, 22 November 1772 – Rotterdam, 18 November 1842) was the son of Jan Lambert Peters and Catharina van den Heuvel. He was active as a master silversmith from 1794. In the same year he married Agnes Wilhelmina Gallé, daughter of Hendrik Gallé and Johanna Pouwels. The couple had six children. Two of their sons, Jacobus Johannes Josephus and Johannes Wilhelmus Lambertus also became silversmiths. Various silverware is known from Gerard’s hand, including a teapot, milk jug and tea caddy, which are in the collection of Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Gerardus Peeters is also mentioned as a retailer in the register of 1800. In 1825 he bought a house on the Huibrug. In 1833 the firm of Peeters and son was registered.

Gerardus Peeters also manufactured a similar table bell in 1820, but without the silver swirling strip on the wood handle.

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