PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR

AN IMPORTANT RENAISSANCE REVIVAL SILVER-GILT, GOLD, ENAMEL, AND ROCK-CRYSTAL SIDEBOARD DISH

ATTRIBUTED TO REINHOLD VASTERS, AACHEN, CIRCA 1880

细节

AN IMPORTANT RENAISSANCE REVIVAL SILVER-GILT, GOLD, ENAMEL, AND ROCK-CRYSTAL SIDEBOARD DISH
ATTRIBUTED TO REINHOLD VASTERS, AACHEN, CIRCA 1880
Circular, the center panel intaglio-carved with a scene of Moses in the Bullrushes, surrounded by three rows of sixteen panels, each engraved with grotesques, all within gold, enamel, diamond- and gem-set borders, with a row of caryatids and a row of figures, all finely enamelled, apparently unmarked
21¾ in. (55.2 cm.) diameter

拍品专文

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