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Lot 3 Dα

A Renaissance style enamel pendant

Auction 1086 - overview Cologne
18.05.2017, 17:00 - Jewellery
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €

A Renaissance style enamel pendant

An enamelled silver pendant in the Spanish Renaissance taste with a two-piece quartz capsule containing a miniature enamelled gold depiction of the flight into Egypt. Stamped Vienna fineness and assay mark for 1872 - 1922, maker's mark Hermann Böhm. H 5.5 cm. Weight 38.3 g.
Vienna, Hermann Böhm, ca. 1880.

The Vienna silversmith's workshop of Hermann Böhm was established in 1866 and specialised in historical revival styles, exhibiting "Bijouterie im antiken Styl" at the Vienna world fair to great acclaim in 1877.