A red marble wall fountain made for Hans Auracher - image-1

Lot 496 Dα

A red marble wall fountain made for Hans Auracher

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 4.960 € (incl. premium)
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A red marble wall fountain made for Hans Auracher

Four-piece fountain made from "rouge du roi" marble. The gable engraved with the owner's inscription and coat-of-arms, the architrave dated 1579. The concave niche with a lion's head mascaron as a spout issuing into a gadrooned basin. Minor breakages and restorations to all faces, especially to the basin. H 155, W 66, D 62.5 cm
South Germany, Nuremberg (?), 1579.

Hans Auracher appears in the records of Nuremberg artists as marrying Maria Magdalena Tucher, the widow of the Coinage Inspector Georg Gebhard, in 1538.

Provenance

North German collection.

Literature

For more on Auracher, see: Grieb (ed.), Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon, Munich 2011, p. 452.