Beschreibung:

Attributed to Simon Troger (German 1683 ~ 1768), a composed group of six carved and stained wood and ivory models of mendicants, circa 1750, comprising five male figures and an elderly female, all portrayed as standing or walking, with inset glass eyes and shown in ragged clothing, on carved and shaped wood bases, the largest 24.5cm high Simon Troger is considered to be one of the most prominent German sculptors of the late Baroque period. His figures and groups distinctively combined wood and ivory, with inset glass eyes, sometimes including details in metal. They were remarked upon as much for their expressive faces and theatrical poses as much as they were for the technical skill employed in their production Troger trained in Merano and Innsbruck, followed by sojourns in Italy, Copenhagen and finally Munich -the city in which he opened his own highly productive workshop by 1727. Troger's composite figures represent beggars and large and complex religious or secular compositions, generally using more ivory than wood. Some of the more important figural groups and statuettes are held at the Castle of Rosenborg in Copenghagen, London's Victoria & Albert Museum, the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, and with a major collection held at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich Literature: Theuerkauff, C., Nachmittelalterliche Elfenbeine, Die Bildewerke in Elfenbein des 16 - 19 Jahrhunderts, Staatlichemuseen Berlin, Band II, Berlin, 1986, pp. 268 - 273, Cat. N° 74 and 75 Trusted, M., Baroque and Later Ivories, Victoria and Albert Museum, V & A Publishing, 2013, pp. 101 - 104 Please note, this lot may be subject to CITES regulations if exported from the EU. The CITES regulations may be found at www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/ .