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Southern Baltic Sea

Madonna with child. 1550-1600 / base circa 1570

Amber in three different tones; carved. 22 cm (8 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Southern Baltic Sea. Madonna with child. 1550-1600 / base circa 1570.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 12,700

 

- 19,000

Sold for:

80,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 229-235

ORANGERIE. Selected Objects, Thursday, 27.11.2014

Information

Amber in three different tones; carved. 22 cm (8 ⅝ in.). On base: AVE GRATIOSA D.N.P. TECUM / BENEDICTA TUI MULIERIBUS (Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, Luke 1:28). Right hand of the Madonna missing, retouchings to the centre part of the base and modern addition the base.

Related literature: Wilfried Seipel (ed.): Bernstein für Thron und Altar. Das Gold des Meeres in fürstlichen Kunst- und Schatzkammern, exh. cat., Vienna / Milan 2005, cat. nos. 7, 9 and 16.

Comparable object: the so-called "Konarski Madonna", circa 1550, Tschenstochau Monastery, Poland.

We would like to thank Dr. Konrad Schlegel of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Kunstkammer) for kindly providing additional information..

Before 1938 collection Kurt Rohde (1882-1950), Berlin / 1938 deposited with Elisabeth Berbig, Dresden / private collection