A PAIR OF BRONZE FIGURES OF SLAVES

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A PAIR OF BRONZE FIGURES OF SLAVES
GERMAN, PROBABLY NUREMBERG, 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Each on an associated ebonised wooden pedestal; one with four incised dots on the underside and the other with five dots.
Uneven greenish-brown patina; chips to polychromy of pedestals.
6in. (15.2cm.) high (2)

出版

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Meller, Die Deutschen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance, Munich, 1926, pls. 1, 17, 36
E.F. Bange, Die deutschen Bronzestatuetten des 16. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1949, figs. 21, 22
J. Chipps Smith, Nuremberg - A Renaissance City, 1500-1618, Austin, 1983, pp. 26, 221, no. 118, fig. 21

拍品专文

The incised dots on the underside of the present figures indicate that they once formed part of a series of figures which almost certainly adorned a larger multi-level composition. Stylistically, they may be compared with bronzes produced in Nuremberg in the 16th century, in particular with the work of the Vischer family. Among these, a bronze candlestick in the form of a nude male figure (Chipps Smith, loc. cit.), and the figures of Hercules and Samson on the tomb of St. Sebaldus (Bange, loc. cit.) are particularly relevant comparisons.