A gilt bronze figure of a caryatid - image-1

Lot 314 Dα

A gilt bronze figure of a caryatid

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 14:30 - Decorative Arts - Sculpture Bronze Furniture Textiles
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
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A gilt bronze figure of a caryatid

Figure of a woman in classical attire with upraised hands and remnants of earlier mountings on the reverse. The coral (corallium rubrum) applied later. The coral with older remnants of glue.
Attributed to Northern Italy, presumably 16th / 17th C.

Literature

Cf. cat. ex aere solido Bronzen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Berlin 1983, cat. no. 71.
Cf. D'Apuzzo, La collezione dei bronze del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna, Florence, undated, cat. no. 66, for the Venetian Venus of Bottega Girolamo Campagna.