MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILTWOOD WALL BRACKETS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each of cornucopia form and bearing printed paper labels DER DIENSTKAMMER S.K.U.K. HOEIT D.D. HERNN ERZH. LUDWIG VICTOR and marked in pen V3535 and 1621/126, variations in width and depth
One: 14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, 12 1/2. in. (31.5 cm.) wide, 8 1/4. in. (21 cm.) deep
The other: 11 in. (28 cm.) wide, 7 in. (18 cm.) deep

Provenance

Archduke Ludwig Victor of Austria (1842-1919).

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Lot Essay

The younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Archduke Ludwig Victor, was one of the more colorful members of the last generation of the Austrian Hapsburgs. Known as ‘Luzi-Wuzi’, he never married and concentrated on his art collection which was housed in his Schwarzenbergplatz Palais. And, after scandals forced Emperor Franz Josef to exile him from Vienna in 1866, the collections moved to Schloss Klessheim in Salzburg.

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