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拍品 44
A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT MODEL OF AN OSTRICH
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The model of the ostrich is similar to the support of a magnificent silver-gilt ostrich egg cup by Clement Kicklinger, Augsburg, circa 1570-75, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 897) (illustrated in H. Seling, Die Kunst Der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, Munich, 1980, III, fig. 100).
A second cup of very similar form, and indeed perhaps based on the Vienna cup, formerly belonged to Frederic Spitzer and was sold as part of his collection in Paris in 1893 (lot 1708). While metal analysis of the flowers on the base of the present model show them to be made of metal consistent with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver, it is possible that the piece is largely nineteenth-century in date.
A second cup of very similar form, and indeed perhaps based on the Vienna cup, formerly belonged to Frederic Spitzer and was sold as part of his collection in Paris in 1893 (lot 1708). While metal analysis of the flowers on the base of the present model show them to be made of metal consistent with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver, it is possible that the piece is largely nineteenth-century in date.