A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER DRINKING-GLASS HOLDER
A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER DRINKING-GLASS HOLDER

MARK OF GEORG RUHL, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1620

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A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER DRINKING-GLASS HOLDER
MARK OF GEORG RUHL, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1620
Modelled as a kneeling figure with articulated arms, on oval rising base, engraved with two coats-of-arms below initials, marked on base
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
11 oz. 4 dwt. (348 gr.)
来源
Anciennes Collections Rothschild; Sotheby’s, Paris, 1 December 2011, lot 302.
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Please note that the glass in the catalogue image is not included in this lot.

拍品专文

Another similar example, although modelled as a Turkish courtier is in the Germanishes Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg (no. HG 1022 a) and was exhibited in the museum’s exhibition, Wenzel Jamnitzer, 28 June – 15 September 1985, G. Bott, Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500 – 1700, Munich, 1985, p.283, pl. 136.

Georg Ruhl was a master in 1598 and died in 1625.  His surviving works have been sought-after by collectors such as Baron Leopold de Rothschold and Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert.  They comprise a number of pieces which would have been made for a Schatzkammer or princely collection of precious gold, silver and gem-set objects.  For example, a parcel-gilt silver cup set with mother-of-peal, rubies and emeralds in the form of a partridge (Gilbert Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 60:1, 2-2008), a double-cup in the form of a barrel originally in the Wrightsman Collection (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 2008.543.3a, b)

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