TWO GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER SCULPTURES

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ID 1027623
Lot 138 | TWO GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER SCULPTURES
TWO GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER SCULPTURES

MARK OF THOMAS JOSEPH HUEBER, AUGSBURG, 1697-1698

Each realistically modeled as a standing figure, the first as Bacchus, depicting Autumn, draped in a leopard skin and holding a bunch of grapes above a wine taster, a vine tendril fixed around his head and his leg, the second as Ceres, depicting Summer, with a long robe engraved with scrolling foliage on matted ground holding a bunch of wheat and a scythe, her head crowned with ears of wheat, each on a spool-shaped ormolu-mounted wood base, marked on the leopard skin and on the base of the dress

22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm.) high

221 oz. 11 dwt. (6,891gr.) gross weight





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Salon des Cuirs, Château de Ferriéres, Paris.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905, (Salon des Cuirs, Château de Ferriéres: 'Deux statuettes en argent, Cérès et Bacchus, estimées la somme de deux cent francs').

H. Seling, Die Ausburger Gold-und Silberschmiede 1529-1868, Munich, 2007, p. 424, no. 1875.
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