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A Frankfurt jeweller (?)

Pearl figure „Fröhlicher Winzer“ or Bacchus. Circa 1700

Gilt bronze; gold, enamel, mother-of-pearl, baroque pearls, 3- to 4-times cut diamond chips, saphire. 5 cm (2 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: A Frankfurt jeweller (?). Pearl figure „Fröhlicher Winzer“ or Bacchus. Circa 1700.

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 5,000

USD 4,110

 

- 6,850

Sold for:

3,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 222-228

ORANGERIE, Thursday, 29.05.2014

Information

Gilt bronze; gold, enamel, mother-of-pearl, baroque pearls, 3- to 4-times cut diamond chips, saphire. 5 cm (2 in.). Enamel with scuff marks, losses to the back and isolated losses to the face.

Comparable object: Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, collection Hermann Emden, Hamburg. Auction 3-7 November 1908, lot 1140

Related literature: Dirk Syndram and Ulrike Weinhold: „...Und ein Leib von Perl“. Die Sammlung der barocken Perlfiguren im Grünen Gewölbe, Munich 2000, p. 51, no. 20 / Halgard Kuhn: Guillaume Verbecq, der juweller August des Starken, und seine Beziehungen zu Frankfurt am Main; in: Dresdener Kunstblätter, vol. 2000, no. 1, p. 138ff..

Private collection, Germany