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Lot 383 Dα

A pewter figure of a miner with an oil lamp

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 14:30 - Decorative Arts - Sculpture Bronze Furniture Textiles
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.780 € (incl. premium)
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A pewter figure of a miner with an oil lamp

H 34.2, D base 18.4 cm.
Johanngeorgenstadt, master J. Unger, active c. 1685.

In 1654, the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I founded a new town in the Saxon Erzgebirge, to which he gave his own name. A few years later, in 1662, a mining office was established there that was responsible for over 100 mines. Besides coal, tin and silver were also mined. The pewter figure presented here possibly represents an underclimber, as he has also come down to us from the series of engravings by Christoph Weigel.

Literature

For this mark cf. Hintze, Sächsische Zinngießer, Aalen 1964, no. 676.
Similar, later miner figures can be found in the SKD Kunstgewerbemuseum, inv. nos. 30220 and 30223.
For the engravings by Wegels and similar porcelain figures see cat. Kostbar wie Gold. Porzellan und Glas im Deutschen Bergbau-Museum, Bochum 1980, cat. no. 7.