Porte-verre en forme de personnage agenouillé en argent et vermeil probablement par Georg Ruhl I, Nuremberg, vers 1620

le personnage, un genou à terre, les deux bras mobiles pouvant être actionnés par une clé dans son dos, reposant sur une double terrasse ovale gravée de rinceaux et fleurs, le ressaut gravé d'armoiries d'alliance timbrées des initiales HWVL BGK

In overall good condition, the gilding worn, mainly on arms, the terrace bent. Both marks on terrace rim. The Rohmer glass and probably a sword missing. Very unusual piece. Good quality.
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Les armes de la femme sont celles des Kreckwitz, de Silésie, corroborées par la lettre K des secondes initiales.

Un personnage similaire habillé en Turc présentant le même système d'ouverture des bras, par le même orfèvre, figure dans les collections du Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Il date de 1609-1625. Voir le catalogue de l'exposition Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500-1700, Germanisches National Museum, 1985, no.136 et Nurnberger Goldschmiedekunst, Band I, Teil 2, p. 763.

An almost identical figural glass holder with expanding arms and mechanism, by the same goldsmith is in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. See: Exhibition catalogue, Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500-1700, Germanisches National Museum, 1985, no.136 and Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst, Nuremberg, 2007, series 1, vol. 2, p.763, ill. 168