A cast iron necklace with a cross pendant and portraits of General Blücher and the Duke of Wellington - image-1
A cast iron necklace with a cross pendant and portraits of General Blücher and the Duke of Wellington - image-2
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Lot 266 Dα

A cast iron necklace with a cross pendant and portraits of General Blücher and the Duke of Wellington

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.875 € (incl. premium)

A cast iron necklace with a cross pendant and portraits of General Blücher and the Duke of Wellington

Polished steel, black patinated cast iron, and gold. Designed as a strand of faceted steel rings connected by steel double rings. The cross resembling that of the Order of the Red Eagle inset with a gold bordered twisting oval medallion bearing portraits of the General and the Duke. L when doubled 30 cm.
Berlin, after 1815, the portraits after works by Leonhard Posch.

Provenance

The C. Lith collection.

Literature

Cf. cat. Eisen statt Gold, Berlin 1982, no. 259.