A rare silver-gilt model of a stork

MAKER'S MARK D.W., DANZIG, CIRCA 1600

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A rare silver-gilt model of a stork
Maker's mark D.W., Danzig, circa 1600
On oval domed base, chased with a snail, a snake, flowers and foliage, applied with a silver cast frog, the stork finely chased with feathers holding in its beak a wrapped and dressed baby with ribbons and a baret, the detachable head set with brown paste eyes
25cm. (10in.) high
marked on the base and inside the neck
272gr.

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This item is below legal alloy

Lot Essay

Cf. For animals on similar bases, see Lorenz Seelig, Silber und Gold, Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst fr die Höfe Europas, Bayrische National Museum, Mnchen 1994, pp. 140/147.
Cf. For a similar larger stork made in Augsburg 1590/1594 by Andreas
Miller, see Vincent Laoux, Philippe Cruysmans Les Bestières des Orfèvres, Génève, 1994, pp. 76/77.

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