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Lot 74 D

A silver azurite brooch

Auction 1207 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 10:30 - Jewellery and Watches
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €

A silver azurite brooch

Designed as a rippled band with engraved decor and a central round azurite cabochon in a prong setting. The brooch findings of zinc plated silver attached with a small strip of pewter. Unsigned. With clear glue on the reverse. 5.6 x 2.2 cm.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Dangast 1910/11.

This brooch was also a gift from Schmidt-Rottluff to the artist Emma Ritter from Oldenburg and was created during their joint summer stay in the North Sea resort of Dangast in 1910/11. It is immortalised in an etching by Schmidt-Rottluff from 1915, which shows a portrait of the painter, a close friend of the artist and at times his pupil.

Provenance

Former collection of Emma Ritter, Oldenburg. Acquired in 1983 from her niece and heir; subsequently in Rhenish private ownership.