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Lot 1634 Dα

An important pair of Augsburg silver wall appliques

Auction 1096 - overview Cologne
17.11.2017, 18:00 - Selected Works
Estimate: 40.000 € - 45.000 €
Result: 74.400 € (incl. premium)
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An important pair of Augsburg silver wall appliques

Openwork oval-form cartouche frames finely chased with strapwork, scrolls, acanthus, and flowerheads, and with a large flower-filled shell surmount, over wooden corpus. The undulating leaf-clasped branches terminating in cylindrical nozzles over wide drip pans. One candelabrum with a minor loss to the upper left scroll, the glass replaced. H 58; W 41 cm.
Marks of Johann Valentin Gevers, 1709 - 12.

Provenance

Formerly the Emil M. Huennebeck Collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Illus. in: Seling 1980, no. 1071. Cf. also a large pair of mirrors by this master for the Princess of Thurn und Taxis, now in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, illus. in cat.: Silber und Gold, Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst für die Höfe Europas, Munich 1994, no. 89. An identical pair of appliques in the Madame Antenor Patiño Collection, sold by Sotheby's Paris, September 2010, lot 189.

Exhibitions

Barockes Silber aus Rheinischen Sammlungen, Suermondt-Museum, Aachen, September - November 1964, no. 22, illus. 11; Ein rheinischer Silberschatz, Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz, Cologne, May - July 1980, no. 208.