Covered ivory bowl turned and engraved with... - Lot 76 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Lot 76
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Covered ivory bowl turned and engraved with... - Lot 76 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Covered ivory bowl turned and engraved with ink. Truncated cone-shaped body with three registers, circular foot and moulded lid with a baluster-shaped grip. It is entirely decorated: on the lid and the upper part of the bowl, scenes of hunting with hare, bear and falcon; in the middle register, a sovereign under a canopy receives figures who pledge allegiance to him; in the lower register, soldiers under arcatures; on the foot, dogs chasing a unicorn and a deer in cartouches; on the lid, elongated figures in cut leather cartouches with masks and fruit cups. Southern Germany, Nuremberg, ca. 1580/1600 Height: 28.5 cm - Diameter: 8 cm (small accidents and cracks) The subjects are largely borrowed from the vignettes of a Nuremberg engraver, Virgil Solis, who was active between 1530 and 1562, and whose prolific output served as an inspiration to many southern German artists (fig. a, b, c and d) This bowl was probably made in the same workshop as the cutlery set in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. 2165-1855, fig.e) Book consulted: M. Trusted, Baroque and later Ivories, London, 2013, cat.421, p 417.
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