A German baroque gilt copper-mounted carved ivory chalice. - image-1

Lot 479 Dα

A German baroque gilt copper-mounted carved ivory chalice.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 14:00 - Jewellery, Furniture, Objects of Vertu, Boxes, Portrait Miniatures
Estimate: 4.000 € - 4.300 €
Result: 4.960 € (incl. premium)

A German baroque gilt copper-mounted carved ivory chalice.

Comprising five individual pieces screwed together. The cylindrical ivory cup carved all around with a bacchanalia. The shaft formed as a kneeling young bacchante with a basket of fruit. Some cracks. H 20.7 cm.
17th C.

Literature

Comparable to a relief of Venus and Cupid from the collection of the Skulpturengalerie SMPK Berlin (in: Theuerkauff, Nachmittelalterliche Elfenbeine, Berlin 1986, no. 108).