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A SET OF FOUR GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER TABLE ORNAMENTS

Lot 32
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 32 | A SET OF FOUR GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER TABLE ORNAMENTS
Estimate value
£ 180 000 – 220 000
A SET OF FOUR GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER TABLE ORNAMENTS
MARK OF ABRAHAM II DRENTWETT, AUGSBURG, 1699-1703
Each on oval stepped plinth, two chased with scale work, two fluted, each supporting a rocky terrace applied with plants and the figures of a putto astride a lion, a putto astride a leopard, a putto spearing a wild boar or a putto seated beside a leaping doe, marked on foot-rims, with later French control marks
7 in (18 cm.) to 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
123 oz. 5 dwt. (3,834 gr.)




Provenance

By tradition Lambert van den Steen, lord of Saives (1664-1757), advisor to the Prince-Bishop of Liège, possibly a gift from Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671-1723), Archbishop of Cologne and Prince-Bishop of Liège from 1694, by descent to,
Victor van den Steen de Jehay, of Gent (1822-1912) by 1888, part sold by his descendants at,
Anonymous sale; Dreweatts, Newbury, 15 March 2017, lot 35 (the wild boar and the doe).
With Galerie Neuse, Bremen, 2018.
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II : Kunstkammer; Sotheby's, Paris, 12 October 2022, lot 238 (the four).



Literature

M. Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Frankfurt am Main, 1922, vol. I, p. 137, maker no. 651, objs. nn-qq.
H. Seling, Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede 1529-1868, Meister, Marken, Werke, Beschauzeichen, Munich, 2007, p. 355, no. 1728 and p. 356, no. 1190.
W. Schwarz, Meister dreier Medien, Der Augsburger Goldschmied, Wachsbossierer und Zeichner Abraham II Drentwett (1647-1729), Beiträge zur Kunstwissenschaft, 2008, 87/I+II, pp. 241-243, cat. no. S44, ill. 56.



Exhibited

Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie et des Travaux Publics, Exposition rétrospective d'art industriel, Brussels, 1888, p. 131, cat. nos. 352 (the wild boar and doe) and 353 (the lion and leopard), listed as the property of M. le comte Victor van des Steen de Jehay, à Gand.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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