AN AUSTRIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL EWER
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AN AUSTRIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL EWER

MARK OF HERMANN RATZERSDORFER, VIENNA, CIRCA 1875

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AN AUSTRIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL EWER
MARK OF HERMANN RATZERSDORFER, VIENNA, CIRCA 1875
On spreading circular foot and on short baluster stem, the upper part applied with four brackets, enamelled in white, green, black and red, the baluster-shaped body with bifurcated scroll handle enamelled with masks, the front of the body applied with the figure of a satyr with the head of an ass, the hinged domed cover with triton finial and applied with a figure of Jonah being spewed forth from the whale, enamelled in white, the body held by straps, applied with grotesque masks enamelled in white, red, green and black marked on foot and inside cover
12½ in. (31.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

The design for this ewer is taken from the work of the German 16th century goldsmith and draughtsman Matthias Zündt (d. 1572), who had served inthe workshop of Wenzel Jamnitzer (d.1585). In his Kraterographie, published in Nuremberg in 1551 he shows a ewer almost identical to the present lot and with an overall design and ornament elements found on the following lot. The drawing is illustrated in J. Hayward, Virtuoso Goldmsiths, and the Triumph of Mannerism, London, 1976, pl. 134.

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