Boy riding a billy goat

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€ 5 500
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18.05.2022 14:00UTC +02:00
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VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
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Germany, Köln
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ID 759535
Lot 45 | Boy riding a billy goat
BOY RIDING A BILLY GOAT. Southern German. Date: Around 1750. Maker/Designer: In the vicinity of Simon Troger. Technique: Carved ivory, wood, eyes made of glass. Description: A goat with curly fur and blue eyes standing on a hill-like oval base. A boy with a tricorn and knee breeches is riding on its back. His head is slightly tilted and his lips are slightly open as if he is singing. Probably he originally held a fiddle and a bow in his hands. Measurement: 21x18x8,5cm. Cites available. Provenance:Acquired at auction Weinmüller, Munich, A133, 10th-12th of March 1971.Literature:Möller, Karin Annette: Elfenbein, Kunsthandwerk des Barock, Bestandskatalog Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin 2000. For a very comparable group with a little beggar see p.162f and two beggars as young musicians p.164ff.
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