A painted plaster cartouche with the head of a dying warrior. - image-1
A painted plaster cartouche with the head of a dying warrior. - image-2
A painted plaster cartouche with the head of a dying warrior. - image-1A painted plaster cartouche with the head of a dying warrior. - image-2

Lot 11 Dα

A painted plaster cartouche with the head of a dying warrior.

Auction 1047 - overview Cologne
02.05.2015, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.720 € (incl. premium)
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A painted plaster cartouche with the head of a dying warrior.

A copy of the cartouche from the central avant corps of the south eastern interior wall of the Zeughaus in Berlin. The plaster painted in imitation of stone. With minor chips, primarily to the edge. H 128, W 87, D 36 cm.
Berlin, Replica-Workshop, 19th C., after Andreas Schlüter, the original made ca. 1696.

Literature

Similar cartouches were to be found in the ceiling of the entrance to portal V of the Lustgarten wing of Berlin palace (in: Geyer, Geschichte des Schlosses zu Berlin, Berlin 2010, p. 199).