A rare Renaissance carved wood bellows - image-1

Lot 527 Dα

A rare Renaissance carved wood bellows

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 2.480 € (incl. premium)

A rare Renaissance carved wood bellows

Carved walnut with gilding and polychromy over bole and gesso, leather bellows bag and bronze mountings. Teardrop shaped bellows with a cartouche finial. Centrally carved with a depiction of Venus surrounded by scrolls and putti. L ca. 68.5 cm.
France, with Italian bronze mountings, late 16th C.

Provenance

From the Collection of a Belgian industrialist family.

Literature

A further, similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Irvin Untermyer, 1964, Acc. No. 64.101.1226.