Karol Filip MALCZ (active from 1828-1864, company until 1939), Confectionery

sterling silver, partly gilded, hallmarked (Malcz in italics in rectangle, double-headed eagle in circle, sample 84 - in rectangle, workshop mark - anchor in oval); height 10.6 cm; width 16.5 cm; depth 13.8 cm; weight 727 g.
Warsaw, ca. 1860.
Supported on four volute-acanthus legs, the body rectangular in plan, with rounded corners, bulging, vertically cocked and ribbed, with a sleeve opening for a key (preserved), with a hinged lid, slightly exalted, flattened, with a blind reserve for a monogram in the middle, from which the cocking and ribbing radially diverge. The interior is gilded.
Malcz is considered the most prominent Warsaw goldsmith of the 19th century. The workshop he founded in 1828 grew rapidly and by 1841 already had 50 employees. Malcz's products were always distinguished by their high level of workmanship and excellent design, which was very much taken care of by the owner himself, who, in addition to managing the company, was its artistic director (probably also a designer). After retiring from the profession in 1864, he handed the company over to his wife's nephew Theodore Werner. He died in 1867