Lotto 1658 - S20 IMPORTANTE COLLEZIONE PRIVATA DI POSATE ANTICHE - giovedì, 21. marzo 2024, 10h00
TWO-PIECE AMBER CUTLERY SET WITH KNIFE AND FORK
Probably Königsberg or Gdansk, mid-17th century.
Handles carved as fully sculpted figures of a man with a rifle and a woman with a fan in clear amber, the faces and hands in bone amber. Dressed in the costume of their time. Blade with tip on the cutting edge, with smith's marks, the bolster bulging, in part decorated with rosettes and stars and with remnants of gilding. Fork tip with two tines, fork bolster jointed and with remnants of gilding.
L knife 17 cm, fork 16 cm.
Blade in part corroded, lady's hand broken off (is included), cracks and losses to the amber.
Cf. for two figurative amber handles from the treasury of the Munich Residence: Gertrud Benker. Alte Bestecke, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Tischkultur. Munich. 1978, p. 70, fig. 85. or auction catalog Dorotheum, Besteck-Sammlung Franz Emmerich Graf Lamberg. Vienna, 1912. p. 17, ill. 203.
Cf. for two figurative amber handles from the treasury of the Munich Residence: Gertrud Benker. Alte Bestecke, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Tischkultur. Munich. 1978, p. 70, fig. 85. or auction catalog Dorotheum, Besteck-Sammlung Franz Emmerich Graf Lamberg. Vienna, 1912. p. 17, ill. 203.
CHF 3 000 / 5 000 | (€ 3 090 / 5 150)
Venduto per CHF 21 250 (incl. premio)