A German silver-gilt mounted ivory hanap,the ivory attributed to Johann Georg Kern, mounts possibly by a member of the Ehkirch family, Nuremberg, circa 1660-1670
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description
on three balls, depicting an allegory of the five senses and Tribulatio Cordi, marks: town and maker's mark
Haut. 20,5 cm, height. 8 in; poids brut. 794 gr. gr., gross weight. 25.52 oz.
Please note that this lot contains elephant ivory the export of which outside the EU is now prohibited pursuant to European regulation 2021/2280 of 16 December 2021. Sotheby's will be able to provide the buyer with the intra-community certificate attached to this item.
J. and S. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt
Albert Ullmann collection, Frankfurt
Private Belgian collection.
Historische Ausstellung der Stadt Nürnberg auf der Jubiläums-Landes-Austellung, Nuremberg 1906, no.354
Faste et élégance, cinq siècles d'orfèvrerie européenne dans les collections privées, exh. cat. (Brussels, 23 Mars-31 Mai 2004) no.146
M. Rosenberg, Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Francfort, 1925, vol. 3, no. 4241 a) (very probably)
Faste et élégance, cinq siècles d'orfèvrerie européenne dans les collections privées, exh. cat. (Brussels, 2004) no. 146
The decorative motif depicting the Five Senses appears on at least eight other ivory pieces attributed to the circle of Leonhard Kern, a stone and wood sculptor from Schwäbisch Hall. For a silver-gilt and ivory tankard also attributed to Johann Georg Kern, see the Sotheby's London, 9 July 2015, lot 164.
The maker's mark—depicting a house—resembles the marks used by the Ehkirch family of goldsmiths, originally from Ulm.
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