A BRONZE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A BRONZE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT
GERMAN, 16TH CENTURY

On a rectangular slate base.
Brown patina worn to reveal lighter brown areas; chips to base.
4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) high

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COMPARABLE LITERATURE:
W. Bode, The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, rev. and ed. by J.D. Draper, New York, 1980, p. 98 and pl. CXVII
H.R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten, Braunschweig, 1967, pp. 125-6, fig. 139
V. Berger and V. Krahn, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, Braunschweig, 1994, pp. 209-22

拍品專文

A comparable but slightly smaller Elephant is in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum at Brunswick. Bode thought it was Italian and 15th century, but the revised edition of his magnum opus rightly calls it 'South German, late 16th century' (locs. cit.). More recently, it has been pointed out (Berger and Krahn, op. cit, pp. 216-7) that it originally came from a fountain in the Lustgarten of Schloss Hesse, and was probably made in the Reisinger or Labenwolf workshops around 1570-90. An example of this model, formerly in the A. von Frey collection, was catalogued as North Italian, circa 1500, by Weihrauch (loc. cit.), while another was at Sotheby's, 7th July 1994, lot 51, as 'probably German, 16th century'.