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Lot 386 Dα

A cast iron dish with sea gods

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

A cast iron dish with sea gods

Black patinated cast iron. Pierced dish decorated with four allegorical figures in elliptical reserves amid tendrils surrounding a central rosette. H 8.5, D 21.7 cm.
Prussian iron foundry, 2nd quarter 19th C., after motifs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Provenance

The C. Lith collection.

Literature

Cf. Schmidt, Der preußische Eisenkunstguss, Berlin 1981, p. 172. Cf. cat. Eisen statt Gold, Berlin 1982, no. 406.