A RECTANGULAR CARVED IVORY RELIEF OF A PEASANT COUPLE IN A GARDEN

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A RECTANGULAR CARVED IVORY RELIEF OF A PEASANT COUPLE IN A GARDEN
BY JACOB DOBBERMANN, MID 18TH CENTURY

Signed with initials in lower right corner 'JD. F'.
5 3/8in. (13.6cm.) high

出版

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Tardy, Les Ivoires - Évolution décorative du Ier siècle à nos jours, Paris, I, 1972, p. 119

拍品专文

Jacob Dobbermann (1682-1745) was born in Kassel. He started to work in amber but he is known to have worked in ivory from at least 1737. A comparable rectangular relief of Hercules and Deianira, signed with initials 'J.D.', is in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel.