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This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the Heirs of Eugen Gutmann and the Estate of Alexis Gregory

A Nautilus Cup with Dutch silver-gilt mounts , Jacob Claesz de Grebber, Amsterdam, 1628

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Auction Closed

December 7, 11:28 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the Heirs of Eugen Gutmann and the Estate of Alexis Gregory

A Nautilus Cup with Dutch silver-gilt mounts

Jacob Claesz de Grebber, Amsterdam

1628

modelled as a triumph of the sea, the shaped domed base fitted with Neptune’s bulls, chased with dolphins. fitted base plate engraved Ter dankbaare gedagtenis van I.C.L toege Eygent aan den Ed. Here Veryfel 1743, aroused merman stem astride a monster, straps in the form of pipe blowing figures, surmounted by half man half beast, possibly Nessus triumphantly holding a fish and carrying Deianira, the cover with finial of Neptune on the tail of a sea horse goading it on with his trident, replaced shell, marked on lip mount

40.5cm, 16in high

1444gr, 46oz 6dwt all in

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Hugo Verijssel, 1743

with Charles Wertheimer before 1904

Eugen Gutmann, by 1904 and until his death in 1925

Eugen Gutmann Collection administered by Gutmann family trust (Trustenad N.V. of Amsterdam) until 1942

Karl Haberstock and Julius Böhler, Munich 1942-1945. (Gutmann liste no. 79)

Henry Nyburg London, 1946

Lion Morpurgo, acquired from the above

Morpurgo gallery, Amsterdam, 1983

Joseph Ritman, acquired 1983

Sotheby's Geneva, The Joseph R. Ritman Collection, 15^th May 1995, lot 53

Galerie Neuse, Bremen 1995-97

Alexis Gregory, New York

Otto von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann, Berlin, 1912, no 148

https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/falke1912/0060

Weltkunst, vol. 10, 15^th may 1983 illus. 1357

Hans-Ulrich Mette, Der Nautiluspokal, Munich, 1995 pp. 168, 169 and 253. Illustrated

Dr Pieter Biesboer, Delfts Zilver, Zwolle, 2020, pp.44 an 54 illus.

Associated Literature:

The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet/Georgius Everhardus Rumphius; translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction by E.M.Beekman, London 1999

Karin Leonhard, Shell collecting. On 17^th century Conchology, Curiosity Cabinets and still life paintings, Early modern zoology: The construction of animals in Science, Literature and the Visual arts, 2007

Fritz van Dulm, Zonder eigen gewinne en Glorie, Hilversum, 2012, p. 54, footnote 96 for information on Hugo Verijssel

Simon Goodman, The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family’s art treasures stolen by the Nazis, 2015