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A GERMAN RENAISSANCE PARCEL-GILT SILVER COUPE

Lot 148
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027570
Lot 148 | A GERMAN RENAISSANCE PARCEL-GILT SILVER COUPE
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
A GERMAN RENAISSANCE PARCEL-GILT SILVER COUPE

MARK OF CHISTOPH ERHART, AUGSBURG, 1585-1590; WITH LATER ELEMENTS

On spreading oval foot chased with sea-monsters in sea waves, with rockery, shells and vegetation, the parcel-gilt stem cast and chased as a kneeling male figure wearing a feathered loin-cloth and feathered headdress with bow and quiver across his shoulder, holding a large shell later applied with a pearl, engraved with later initial S on underside of foot, marked on foot rim

6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

17 oz. 9 dwt. (543 gr.) gross weight





Provenance

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Château de Ferrières.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 and transferred to Germany.

Returned to France and restituted to the Rothschild family on 29 March 1946.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Archives of the Commission de Récuperation Artistique (CRA), Archives Diplomatiques, Paris, 209 SUP/108 - Inventaires / 1947- OBJETS D'ART emportés par les Allemands du Chateau de FERRIERES (FERRIERES-en-Brie- Seine et Marne) p. 2 : 'COUPE en Nautile á monture d'argent; comme pied de coupe, un chasseur indien á genou avec un carquois et un arc. Au Bord du socle, dauphine et coquillage, sur le bord de l'embouchure, arabesque. Allemagne du Sud, fin 16e siècle, coupe cassée'.

Helmut Seling, Die Augsburger Gold-und Silverschmiede 1529-1868, Munich, 2007, no 763
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Sculptures
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