A Neo Gothic Berlin cast iron bracelet - image-1

Lot 44 Dα

A Neo Gothic Berlin cast iron bracelet

Auction 1158 - overview Cologne
12.11.2020, 14:00 - Jewellery and Gold Boxes
Estimate: 1.300 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.625 € (incl. premium)

A Neo Gothic Berlin cast iron bracelet

Designed as a strand of delicately pierced links with Gothic finial motifs alternating with quatrefoil tracery designs. The oval clasp with a finial relief and corresponding rosette on a polished steel plaque. L 19 cm. H clasp 6 cm. Weight 47.01 g.
Berlin, c. 1820/30. Attributed to Johann Conrad Geiss.

Literature

Cf. an identical signed bracelet by Conrad Geiss with a differing clasp in: Arenhövel, cat. Eisen statt Gold, Berlin 1982, p. 133 ff, no. 273. Cf. also cat.: Aus einem Guss - Eisenguss in Kunst und Technik, Museum für Verkehr und Technik Berlin, no. 206. Here the same bracelet with a variation on this clasp.