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AN AUGSBURG MOTHER-OF-PEARL, HORN AND BRASS-INLAID, TORTOISE...

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 40

AN AUGSBURG MOTHER-OF-PEARL, HORN AND BRASS-INLAID, TORTOISE...

Schätzpreis
100.000 £ - 150.000 £
ca. 203.379 $ - 305.068 $
Zuschlagspreis:
311.200 £
ca. 632.915 $
Beschreibung:

AN AUGSBURG MOTHER-OF-PEARL, HORN AND BRASS-INLAID, TORTOISESHELL, PORCELAIN, SILVER AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ORGAN PRUNKUHR
CIRCA 1725-1730, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY MEISSEN AND DECORATED IN THE AUFFENWERTH WORKSHOP (AUGSBURG)
AN AUGSBURG MOTHER-OF-PEARL, HORN AND BRASS-INLAID, TORTOISESHELL, PORCELAIN, SILVER AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ORGAN PRUNKUHR CIRCA 1725-1730, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY MEISSEN AND DECORATED IN THE AUFFENWERTH WORKSHOP (AUGSBURG) The case modelled in three tiers, the upper tier surmounted by a winged and sword-bearing angel finial above a painted porcelain plaque depicting an abbess, framed above by a coronet by winged putti to the sides, above an architectural niche backed with silvered mirror panels and flanked by mother-of-pearl pilasters, with penwork flooring and centred by an ormolu figure of Mars with Cupid (associated, probably 17th Century), with two painted porcelain columns decorated with Chinoiserie designs to each side, each with ormolu composite capital; the middle tier with conforming columns and pilasters and with inlaid coloured mother-of-pearl portrait roundels to the sides, flanking a brass dial pierced beneath its silver trellis-work spandrels, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, signed on its back plate Melchior Balthazar , the arch with mother-of-pearl roundel of a gentleman, the associated clock movement with rectangular plates joined by five back-pinned pillars, converted to anchor escapement with Brocot suspension and with outside calibrated countwheel strike on later bell; the lower tier inlaid on its upper surface with Chinoiserie figures in coloured mother-of-pearl and with profile portraits of Europeans to the sides and front angles, the front apron panel inlaid with figures in stylised exotic costume and flanked by silver male mounts emblematic of Peace and War, on four hairy paw feet, this section housing the organ movement with single fusee and barrel driving a wooden barrel for bellows sounding on nine (formerly ten) small lead pipes 31½ x 19¾ x 10¼ ins. (80 x 50 x 26 cms.)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 40
Auktion:
Datum:
05.07.2007
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
5 July 2007, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

AN AUGSBURG MOTHER-OF-PEARL, HORN AND BRASS-INLAID, TORTOISESHELL, PORCELAIN, SILVER AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ORGAN PRUNKUHR
CIRCA 1725-1730, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY MEISSEN AND DECORATED IN THE AUFFENWERTH WORKSHOP (AUGSBURG)
AN AUGSBURG MOTHER-OF-PEARL, HORN AND BRASS-INLAID, TORTOISESHELL, PORCELAIN, SILVER AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ORGAN PRUNKUHR CIRCA 1725-1730, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY MEISSEN AND DECORATED IN THE AUFFENWERTH WORKSHOP (AUGSBURG) The case modelled in three tiers, the upper tier surmounted by a winged and sword-bearing angel finial above a painted porcelain plaque depicting an abbess, framed above by a coronet by winged putti to the sides, above an architectural niche backed with silvered mirror panels and flanked by mother-of-pearl pilasters, with penwork flooring and centred by an ormolu figure of Mars with Cupid (associated, probably 17th Century), with two painted porcelain columns decorated with Chinoiserie designs to each side, each with ormolu composite capital; the middle tier with conforming columns and pilasters and with inlaid coloured mother-of-pearl portrait roundels to the sides, flanking a brass dial pierced beneath its silver trellis-work spandrels, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, signed on its back plate Melchior Balthazar , the arch with mother-of-pearl roundel of a gentleman, the associated clock movement with rectangular plates joined by five back-pinned pillars, converted to anchor escapement with Brocot suspension and with outside calibrated countwheel strike on later bell; the lower tier inlaid on its upper surface with Chinoiserie figures in coloured mother-of-pearl and with profile portraits of Europeans to the sides and front angles, the front apron panel inlaid with figures in stylised exotic costume and flanked by silver male mounts emblematic of Peace and War, on four hairy paw feet, this section housing the organ movement with single fusee and barrel driving a wooden barrel for bellows sounding on nine (formerly ten) small lead pipes 31½ x 19¾ x 10¼ ins. (80 x 50 x 26 cms.)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 40
Auktion:
Datum:
05.07.2007
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
5 July 2007, London, King Street
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