Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art
Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from an Important Private Collection
The Master of the Aeneid, French, Limoges, circa 1525-1530 | Plaque with Polyphemus and Achaemenides
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December 5, 03:36 PM GMT
Estimate
240,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
The Master of the Aeneid
French, Limoges, circa 1525-1530
Plaque with Polyphemus and Achaemenides
partially gilt painted enamel on copper, within a later wood frame
enamel: 22.5 by 20cm., 8 7/8 by 7 7/8 in.
Bürki collection, Bern;
Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne, before 1964-1971;
Keir collection, before 1983;
Sotheby’s New York, 20 November 1997, lot 126;
with Alain Moatti, Paris;
Important Private Collection
H. Schnitzler, P. Bloch and C. Ratton, Email, Goldschmiede- und Metallarbeiten. Europäisches Mittelalter: Sammlung E. and M. Kofler-Truniger Luzern, vol. ii, Lucerne and Stuttgart, 1965, p. 41, no. E 124, pl. 68;
P. Verdier, The Walters Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, p. 75;
S. Baratte, 'La série de plaques du Maître de L’Énéide', in A. Erlande-Brandenburg, J-M. Leniaud and X. Dectot (eds.), Études d'histoire de l'art offertes à Jacques Thirion. Des premiers temps chrétiens au XXe siècle, Paris, 2001, p. 140, no. 31
P. Verdier, The Walters Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, p. 75;
S. Baratte, 'La série de plaques du Maître de L’Énéide', in A. Erlande-Brandenburg, J-M. Leniaud and X. Dectot (eds.), Études d'histoire de l'art offertes à Jacques Thirion. Des premiers temps chrétiens au XXe siècle, Paris, 2001, p. 140, no. 31