A parcel gilt silver pendant with Saint George and the dragon - image-1

Lot 86 Dα

A parcel gilt silver pendant with Saint George and the dragon

Auction 1116 - overview Cologne
15.11.2018, 16:00 - Jewellery
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

A parcel gilt silver pendant with Saint George and the dragon

After a South German Renaissance design. Picked out in coloured "ronde bosse" enamel and suspending a small pearl. Stamped: Vienna maker's mark "SG" of Simon Grünwald, master in 1873. Minor wear to the enamel with cold enamel repairs. H 7.2 cm, weight 25 g.
Vienna, Simon Grünwald, circa 1875.

Literature

Illus. in: Marquard, Berlin 1998, p. 244, no. 249. For the Renaissance designs, cf.: Hackenbroich, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich 1979, illus. 410, 412, 418, 437, 447.