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Lot Essay
A drawing by Vasters for a similar silver-mounted rock-crystal sideboard dish is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Yvonne Hackenbroch, "Reinhold Vasters, Goldsmith," Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 19-20, 1984/1985, p. 207, fig. 85.
Another Vasters drawing of a design for a circular sideboard dish, with mother-of-pearl rather than rock-crystal panels, shows a very similar arrangement of green and red stones as on the present dish. The drawing is dated 1884 (collection Victoria and Albert Museum, E2574-1919).
For further information on Vasters's career and the discovery of his working drawings, see Charles Truman, "Reinhold Vasters: 'The Last of the Goldsmiths'?", The Connoisseur, March 1979, pp. 154-161. Truman illustrates numerous enamelled gold mounts similar to those on the present dish.
SUPP: Reinhold Vasters's designs for the Temple of Solomon from the Collection of Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, showing related white enamel caryatids. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum Picture Library
Another Vasters drawing of a design for a circular sideboard dish, with mother-of-pearl rather than rock-crystal panels, shows a very similar arrangement of green and red stones as on the present dish. The drawing is dated 1884 (collection Victoria and Albert Museum, E2574-1919).
For further information on Vasters's career and the discovery of his working drawings, see Charles Truman, "Reinhold Vasters: 'The Last of the Goldsmiths'?", The Connoisseur, March 1979, pp. 154-161. Truman illustrates numerous enamelled gold mounts similar to those on the present dish.
SUPP: Reinhold Vasters's designs for the Temple of Solomon from the Collection of Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, showing related white enamel caryatids. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum Picture Library