A Renaissance bronze inkwell
Lot-No. 329
Northern Italy, Verona or Venice, around 1600. Bronze with olive brown patina and remains of black laquer. Bellied vessel, based on 3 satyr boys sitting on scrollwork, between them garlands. Lid with scrollwork cartouches, handle and finial in the shape of a figurine of David with the head of Goliath. H. 17 cm, diam. 9 cm. - Literature: Comp. K. Pechstein, Bronzen und Plaketten vom ausgehenden 15. Jh. bis zur Mitte des 17. Jh. (Katalog des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band III), Berlin 1968, no. 90-95. - Provenance: Private Collection, Lower Saxony.
A Renaissance bronze inkwell
A Renaissance bronze inkwell
Lot-No. 329
Northern Italy, Verona or Venice, around 1600. Bronze with olive brown patina and remains of black laquer. Bellied vessel, based on 3 satyr boys sitting on scrollwork, between them garlands. Lid with scrollwork cartouches, handle and finial in the shape of a figurine of David with the head of Goliath. H. 17 cm, diam. 9 cm. - Literature: Comp. K. Pechstein, Bronzen und Plaketten vom ausgehenden 15. Jh. bis zur Mitte des 17. Jh. (Katalog des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band III), Berlin 1968, no. 90-95. - Provenance: Private Collection, Lower Saxony.