A GERMAN RENAISSANCE SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED NAUTILUS CUP AND COVER

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$ 390 600
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12.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Лот 162 | A GERMAN RENAISSANCE SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED NAUTILUS CUP AND COVER
A GERMAN RENAISSANCE SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED NAUTILUS CUP AND COVER

MARK OF MELCHIOR BAIR, AUGSBURG, 1602-1606, WITH LATER ELEMENTS; THE SHELL PROBABLY CARVED IN GUANGZHOU (CANTON), CHINA, 16TH CENTURY

On spreading base chased with sea monsters in sea waves, the stem formed as a twin-tailed mermaid sitting on a dragon and holding aloft the nautilus shell carved with Chinese warrior on horseback against a ground of geometric motifs, the straps cast and chased with grotesques on foliate ground and with lion mask terminal, the rim mount engraved with exotic birds amongst scrolling foliage, the detachable cover chased on the domed center with sea monsters in a wavy sea, the finial shaped as a putto riding a dolphin, marked on foot-rim and with later Austro-Hungarian mark for Leibach

10 ¾ in. (27 cm.) high

24 oz. 9 dwt. (761 gr.) gross weight





Provenance

Frederick Spitzer (1815-1890).

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), hôtel Saint-Florentin.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur rue de Rivoli, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Inventaire après le décès de Mr le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, 16 Octobre 1905, Rothschild Archives 00/1037/01: 'Nautile fourni d'un monstre marin XVIe siècle, argent doré - Divinité marine - estimé la somme de deux mille francs'.

M. Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Band I, Frankfurt am Main, 1922, p. 48, 384/ Nr. 127.
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