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Lot 468 Dα

Enamelled silver reliquary belonging to Abbot Martin Ertle

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 2.400 € - 3.000 €
Result: 3.024 € (incl. premium)
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Enamelled silver reliquary belonging to Abbot Martin Ertle

Oval cartouche frame decorated with repoussé acanthus scrolls surrounding 19 round polychrome enamel plaques showing depictions of saints. The expositorium of clear quartz surrounded by pearls alternating with garnet cabochons. The upper terminal formed by a large enamel plaque with the abbot's coat-of-arms, dated 1701. With a hinged stand on the reverse. The coat-of-arms engraved once more onto the reverse. The relics lost. H 27.5; W 16.5 cm.
Unmarked, South German, around 1700.

Martin Ertle (1641 - 1712) was abbot of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Rot an der Rot in the present-day district of Biberach from 1672 to 1711 - and made a name for himself above all in the reconstruction of the monastery, which was ravaged by several fires in 1681. His tomb is located in St Martin's Chapel in the monastery; the tombstone bears the same coat of arms as this reliquary: in fields 2 and 3 the personal coat of arms of Abbot Martin, with a golden lily on a blue background, and in fields 1 and 4 the coat of arms of the abbey with the Verena fish.