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Lot 1007 D‡α

A carved ivory tankard with sea gods

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 15:00 - Treasures from a Lower Saxon Collection
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.952 € (incl. premium)
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A carved ivory tankard with sea gods

Slightly tapering cylindrical corpus carved with a continuous scene of figures amid waves. The domed lid with a sitting putto finial. The rim and edge of the lid bordered with scrolls, mascarons, and fruit. The angular S-shaped handles with a faun mascaron, scale pattern, and an acanthus thumbrest. Several cracks and restorations, remnants of glue, the ivory screw connecting the thumbrest replaced in metal. H 29 cm.
Attributed to the Netherlands or Southern Germany, late 17th / 19th C.

Literature

For this motif and the attribution, compare a tankard in the Schatzkammer München in: Tardy, Les Ivoires, 1re partie Europe, Paris 1972, p. 165.
Cf. also a tankard in the Louvre attributed to Augsburg with vermeil mountings by Erhard II Warnberger, a similar motif in cat.: Ivoires du musée du Louvre 1480 - 1850 une collection inédite, Paris-Dieppe 2005, no. 28.