Property from a private collection
A pair of Bohemian pietre dure panels, attributed to the Castrucci workshop, Prague, late 16th/early 17th century
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
with various types of jaspers, one depicting in the foreground a woman fetching water at a fountain, with a hunter or shepherd with his dog behind, a wooden bridge and cityscape in the background; the other depicting a man, Saint Jerome, kneeling and praying, near a recumbent lion, before a landscape, in later gilt-bronze frames
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Avec cadre: Haut. 25 cm, larg. 31cm; Framed: Height. 9 7/8in., width 12 1/4in.
Panneau visible: Haut. 20.5 cm, larg. 26.5cm; Panel visible: Height. 8 1/8in., width 10 3/8in.
Private Collection, France, at least since the 1970s;
By descent to the present owner.
Related literature :
A. M. Giusti, Pietre Dure. L'arte europea del mosaico negli arredi e nelle decorazioni dal 1500 al 1800, Florence, 1992.
A. M. Massinelli, The Gilbert Collection: Hardstones, cat. Gilbert Collection, London, 2000, p. 29-31.
W. Koeppe and Annamaria Giusti (eds.), Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe, exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008, pp. 219-225, nos. 66-69.
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