Lot 120 D α

A Viennese cast iron domestic altar

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 400 € - 600 €
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A Viennese cast iron domestic altar

Depicting the Virgin on the crescent in a Neogothic surround. Engraved "Glanz m. Vorb." on the reverse. H 14.2 cm.
Vienna, K.K. Landesprivilegierte Bronce- & Eisengießerei Joseph Glanz, 1831 - 1866.

Born in Lviv (Ukraine) in 1795, Joseph Glanz trained as a sculptor in the studio of Christian Daniel Rauch and worked as a chaser in the Berlin iron foundry. In 1826 he went into business for himself as an iron founder, settling a few years later in Vienna, where he ran a flourishing iron and bronze foundry.

Provenance

Private collection, Potsdam.

Literature

For more on Glanz, see Der preußische Eisenkunstguss, Berlin 1982, p. 209 f.
See also Pall, Eisenkunstguss aus der Österreichisch/Ungarischen Monarchie, Graz 2011, p. 21 ff. and inv. no. 121.