PROBABLY BY GABRIEL HERMELING, COLOGNE, CIRCA 1890

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A CIRCULAR SILVER-GILT DOUBLE-SIDED RELIQUARY PENDANT
Probably by Gabriel Hermeling, Cologne, circa 1890
One side enamelled in translucent colours with the Virgin and Child on deep blue basse-taille ground beneath Gothic piercing, the other engraved with the Agnus Dei enclosed by portrait roundels including God the Father, winged angels and other faces, all in Gothic-style pierced surrounds, the rims with running quatrefoils, short suspension cords
2¼ in.(6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. no(s). not known.

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Lot Essay

Gabriel Joseph Heinrich Hermeling (1833-1904) descended from a long line of Cologne goldsmiths. He is recorded as a silversmith in 1860 and took over his father's shop the next year. He trained both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. He made Romanesque and Gothic-style ecclesiastical silver incorporating enamels from at least 1880 till 1900. In 1880 he received the State medal in the Crafts exhibition at Dusseldorf. From 1890-1900 he was a Court goldsmith. Around 1900 he was employing some 50 people in his workshop (W. Scheffler, Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens, Berlin, 1973, p. 674-5, no. 2103).

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