ID 1423793
Lot 179 | SMALL BRASS CASKET WITH VIRTUES
Estimate value
€ 6 000 – 7 000
attributed to Michel Mann.
Date: Presumably ca. 1610.
Technique: Brass, fire gilded and etched, copper, welded steel.
Description: Rectangular shape on small bun feet mounted with pilaster-like and pierced copper
ornaments on the corners and in the centre. The sides and lid with rectangular etched
depictions of the virtues, each labelled at the top: Prudentia, Fortitudo, Fides, Caritas,
Spes and Temperantia. A village landscape on the base. The lock in the lid with four
bolts, the chapel with star ornament. A depiction of the Fama on the inside of the base.
Mark: Inscr. 'Michael Mann' on the ribbon-like lock cover.
Key available. The original lid handle has been lost.
Provenance:
Private collection Lower Rhine.
Literature:
Berger, Ewald: Prunkkassetten. Europäische Meisterwerke aus acht Jahrhunderten. Hanns Schell Collection in Graz, Stuttgart 1998.
For the works by Mich(e)l and Conrad Mann in general, see pp.117-138. For the depiction of virtues, see cat. no.131. For the somewhat varying signatures, see p.131.
Auction house category: | Art chamber |
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