Lot Essay
Cf. D. Syndram, U. Weinhold, '...und ein Leib von Perl', Die Sammlung der barocken Perlfiguren im Grünen Gewøolbe, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Edition Minerva, 2000, page 38, illustration 8
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Details
A Pearl And Enamel Baroque Style Statuette
The realistically designed polychrome enamelled slightly drunken figure playing his steel roast as a violin, with pearl body and playfully outstreched leg to the lapis-lazuli base showing an enamelled bachanalian scene with central Herm figure, two young satyrs and two intertwined cornucopias - the horns of plenty, mounted in gold, circa 1890, 10.3 cm. high
The realistically designed polychrome enamelled slightly drunken figure playing his steel roast as a violin, with pearl body and playfully outstreched leg to the lapis-lazuli base showing an enamelled bachanalian scene with central Herm figure, two young satyrs and two intertwined cornucopias - the horns of plenty, mounted in gold, circa 1890, 10.3 cm. high
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