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A BERLIN GILT CAST IRON CASKET AND COVER
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A BERLIN GILT CAST IRON CASKET AND COVER

CIRCA 1820 AFTER A DESIGN BY KARL FRIEDRICK SCHINKEL (1781-1841)

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A BERLIN GILT CAST IRON CASKET AND COVER
Circa 1820 after a design by Karl Friedrick Schinkel (1781-1841)
The cover with a pine cone finial and cast in relief with stylised palm branches, anthemia and foliate scrolls, the base with a frieze of roundels and fruiting swags, above a pair of winged hippogriffin flanking a flaming torch, on leaf cast paw feet, impressed "29" to underside
18 cm (7 in.) wide; 15 cm (6 in.) high; 11 cm (4 1/4 in.) deep
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A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium in all lots in this sale

拍品專文

One of the most brilliant and influential architects and designers of the 19th century, Schinkel was also a skilled draughtsman and painter, who combined a romantic passion with a deep sense of the practical and technical. His successful state-sponsored scheme to improve the design of manufactured goods emerging from the new Prussian industries is typified in this casket that unites pure classical motifs in the modern mass-produced medium of cast iron