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Lot Essay
Another similar example, although modelled as a Turkish courtier is in the Germanishes Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg (no. HG 1022 a) and was exhibited in the museum’s exhibition, Wenzel Jamnitzer, 28 June – 15 September 1985, G. Bott, Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500 – 1700, Munich, 1985, p.283, pl. 136.
Georg Ruhl was a master in 1598 and died in 1625. His surviving works have been sought-after by collectors such as Baron Leopold de Rothschold and Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert. They comprise a number of pieces which would have been made for a Schatzkammer or princely collection of precious gold, silver and gem-set objects. For example, a parcel-gilt silver cup set with mother-of-peal, rubies and emeralds in the form of a partridge (Gilbert Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 60:1, 2-2008), a double-cup in the form of a barrel originally in the Wrightsman Collection (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 2008.543.3a, b)
Georg Ruhl was a master in 1598 and died in 1625. His surviving works have been sought-after by collectors such as Baron Leopold de Rothschold and Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert. They comprise a number of pieces which would have been made for a Schatzkammer or princely collection of precious gold, silver and gem-set objects. For example, a parcel-gilt silver cup set with mother-of-peal, rubies and emeralds in the form of a partridge (Gilbert Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 60:1, 2-2008), a double-cup in the form of a barrel originally in the Wrightsman Collection (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 2008.543.3a, b)