A GERMAN SILVER-GILT LION RAMPANT, WENZEL JAMNITZER, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1560
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November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT LION RAMPANT
WENZEL JAMNITZER, NUREMBERG
CIRCA 1560
cast as an open-jawed lion originally holding a shield, now lacking, his head now with a scre๊w-on cap, mounted on a cast circular base with band of scallop shells alternating with ✃acanthus foliage, the domed center cast and chased with rocks and grasses, molded outer rim
marked on top of the rimwith maker’s mark of the Jamnitzer family and separate incuse W, and city mark, also stamped with anAustrian control mark for circa 1806, mark not clear, probably originally a support for a tazza or cup
10 oz 10 dwt
height 4 7/8 in.
12.5 cm
Phillips Son & Neale, London, 1958
This recorded in Karin Tebbe et al, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868, no. 403, item 29, p. 204.
The shells and acanthus on the foot may be compared to the silver-gilt mounts on a jasper cup by Wenzel Jamnitzer in the Schatzkammer der Residenz, Munich, illus. in the catalogue Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500-1700, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1985. Catalogue no. 24, p. 230 color plate 4.