A large Munich parcel gilt silver-mounted nautilus chalice - image-1

Lot 1040 Dα

A large Munich parcel gilt silver-mounted nautilus chalice

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 15:00 - Treasures from a Lower Saxon Collection
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 8.680 € (incl. premium)

A large Munich parcel gilt silver-mounted nautilus chalice

Designed as a shell engraved with scrollwork in Renaissance Revival mountings resting on a figure of a triton blowing into a shell. H 48.5 cm.
Maker's mark of Eduard Wollenweber, circa 1880.

Literature

Cf. a nautilus chalice by Wollenweber made for Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden illus. in cat.: Macht und Pracht, Europas Glanz im 19. Jahrhundert, Annweiler 2006, p. 218 f.