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Lot 423 Dα

A silver gilt official chain and pendant

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 11:00 - Decorative Arts I (Silver)
Estimate: 4.800 € - 5.000 €

A silver gilt official chain and pendant

Narrow chain of pierced links with floral relief decor suspending a Saxon electoral "Dreibrüder-Taler" with a portrait of Elector Christian II and his brothers Johan-Georg and August of Saxony dated 1597 in a surround set with foil backed glass paste stones. Four of the decorative hanging loops missing. L ca, 100 cm, weight 304 g.
Attributed to South Germany or Austria-Hungary, 17th C.

Literature

Cf. a belt in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, illus. in cat.: GNM 2007, vol. II, no. 213.