Lot 225
  • 225

Hanap en forme de chouette en argent et vermeil, apparemment non poinçonné, probablement Belgique ou Allemagne vers 1580, peut-être Cassel

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hanap en forme de chouette en argent et vermeil, apparemment non poinçonné, probablement Belgique ou Allemagne vers 1580, peut-être Cassel
  • SILVER
  • Haut. 14 cm, 309 g
reposant sur les deux pattes et la queue, la tête amovible, gravé sous chacune des pattes d'une marque

Literature

Cette chouette est illustrée dans l'ouvrage de la Fondation du Roi Baudouin, Chouette au poinçon d'Anvers, 2003, p. 29. Elle est attribuée à Kassel vers 1550. Elle est aussi illustrée dans l'ouvrage de Vincent Laloux, L'oeil du Hibou, le Bestiaire des Orfèvres, p. 128 où il est mentionné qu'elle a fait partie de la collection Claude d'Allemagne. Elle fut également reproduite dans Laurence Buffet-Challié, Un bestiaire en argent, Plaisir de France, novembre 1968 et enfin dans Magie de l'Orfèvrerie, 2000, p. 168.

Condition

In overall good condition. Apparently unmarked, possibly a trace of mark at teh beginning of a paw, on the body. the neck engraved inside with a frieze of strapwork (some losses at the gilding on this frieze). Very nice quality, good weight.
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