Lot 418
  • 418

A South German brass candleholder in the form of an armored warrior, circa 1510-20

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • brass
olive-gold patina beneath black lacquer, on cylindrical veined red marble base.

Provenance

Donath collection, Budapest
Guido von Rhò, Vienna
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 1, 1974, lot 57

Exhibited

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 3 March-11 September 1988, cat. no. 50

Literature

E. W. Braun, Die Bronzen der Sammlung Guido von Rhò, Vienna, 1908, p. 35, fig. 16
L. Camins, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, San Francisco, 1988, no. 50, pp. 142-143
M. H. Schwartz, European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 69, p.135

Catalogue Note

Two examples of the present model were offered in these rooms May 20, 1988, lots 70-71.