Antiques
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) and others — The actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the poetess (Haijo) Shûshiki
(Honjo 1786-1865 Edo) Colour woodblock print from the series The Flowers of Edo with pictures of famous views (Edo no hana meishô-e); 1863. Artist's signature ''Toyokuni ga'' in red Toshidama cartouche, secondary images by Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-89) and Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-80). Oban format 35.6 x 24.6 cm - Margins slightly soiled. - Thieme/Becker 22.
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Horseshoe chair with lacquer painting — China, Qing dynasty
Four straight, square legs braced all round, straight seat, the elegantly horseshoe-shaped curved armrest and backrest on straight and curved supports, straight, narrow backboard consisting of two openwork carved panels and two panels carved in high relief with courtly figure groups. Wood, relief painted in colour. 96 x 51 x 62 x 60 cm. - Traces of use.
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White Tara (Sitatara) — China, probably Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Goddess seated on a lotus throne in padmasana (lotus seat), her hands showing the gesture of granting wishes (varada mudra) and warding off demons (karana mudra), lotus blossoms on her upper arms, wearing bodhisattva jewellery and a seven-petalled crown on her head, her hair tied up in a high, pointed knot; the base is open. Bronze with gilding over red lacquer. H. 31.5 cm. - Lotus blossom broken off on the right, loss of colour, signs of age.
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Cassette frame — Italy, 16th century
Fluted visible strip, beaded bar, profiled strip, smooth, recessed panel with floral gold painting in the centers and corners, semicircular bar, profiled edge as a finial. Wood, gilded and ebonized, ''ora e nera'', veneered joint. Light dimensions 34 x 29 cm; outer dimensions 54 x 49 cm. - Signs of age, old hanger.
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Fine casket — Abraham Roentgen workshop, Neuwied - around 1755/1760
Rectangular body with beveled corners on profiled brass feet, hinged lid with curved bow handle; richly decorated with diamond mosaic, cartouche engraved with a cat set into the lid, the keyhole hidden behind a small door in a florally engraved cartouche and opened with a push button on the underside, the secret drawer on the side in the base can also be opened by pressing the diamond-shaped button inside. Brass fittings and veins, oak body veneered with cherry wood and mahogany, mosaic of rosewood, walnut, olive wood and mahogany. Approx. 12.5 x 21.5 x 16.5 cm. - Between 1755 and 1790, the well-known Neuwied cabinetmaker's workshop, which was run by father and son, produced a large number of caskets that varied in size and design. The small caskets, in which valuable items such as jewelry, documents, tea or tobacco were stored, were sought-after gifts within aristocratic circles in the 18th century. Of the estimated 100 caskets from the famous Roentgen workshop, only a few have come to light and some are now in museums. It is assumed that many are unfortunately lost. - Cf. Lit. D. Fabian: Roentgenmöbel aus Neuwied, 1986, pp. 279-677 and especially figs. 661-664. - Expert opinion by Dr. Dietrich Fabian from 1997 is available.
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Large baroque chest of drawers — Germany, around 1740
On ball and claw feet, floral and rocaille-decorated frame, tall four-drawer, centrally divided body, curved front, profiled crosspieces. Walnut veneered, panels and frame edge gilded, brass fittings.109 x 122 x 65 cm.
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Powolny, Michael — Large putto as an allegory of autumn
(Judenburg 1871-1954 Vienna) Design around 1915/16, made by Viennese ceramics. Boy standing on a pedestal wearing a shirt and hat, holding grapes in his hands and a dog at his feet. Red body, colorfully glazed. Manufactory and artist's mark on the bottom. H. approx. 75 cm. - Lit. E. Frottier: Michael Powolny, 1990, WV 176 and 201.
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Vase — Vetreria Artistica Reno Schiavon
Murano, 2nd half of the 20th century. Ovoid body with large opening. Inside lined with black glass, opaque glass in white, densely fused millefiori made of opaque glass all around the middle, predominantly in orange and blue as well as black and white, matt carved structure over the entire surface. Signature ''Schiavon Murano'' and ''1/1'' scratched on the bottom. H. 25.8 cm.
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Vase with cyclamen — Daum Frères, Nancy - around 1900
Baluster shape with high shoulder; Violet decoration painted all around with gold and colorful enamel. Clear, matt etched glass with a gradient underlay in purple. On the bottom with gold inscription ''Daum Nancy'' and Lorraine cross. H. 23 cm. - Gold rubbed.
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Church light or Incense burner — Augsburg, 18th century
Baluster form with multiple bulges and a suspended spigot; the corpus of acanthus leaves openly worked around three inscription medallions, on the rim three fully sculptured putti heads, with chain suspension, ending in a leaf-relief crown. Silver. Body and crown with assay mark and maker's mark ''IF''. H. without chain 21 cm; 858 g. - Signs of wear, dents.
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Fancy eagle pendant — 20th century
On a short chain suspension with canopy eyelet, an eagle spreading its wings sitting on a small branch, a gemstone hanging from each wing tip and the branch with a small baroque pearl. Yellow gold 18 ct, enamel. H. bird 4.5 cm, with suspension approx. 9 cm, 20.8 g. - Enclosed gold-plated silver chain, l. 34 cm. - From Franconian aristocratic property.
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Saxon pear jug — Annaberg or Dippoldiswalde, around 1680
Ovoid body with eight vertical fields divided by ring bars, alternating with scales and pinnate leaves in relief, rosettes and pomegranates at the ends of the stem, ring bar on the back of the handle. Black-brown engobed stoneware with painting in five enamel colours; pewter mount. H. 25 cm. - Cf. J. Horschik: Steinzeug, ill. p. 249, cat. 139.
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Water jug (hydria) with St Martin — Italy, 18th century
Ovoid body over a flared foot, swinging neck with nodus, two very large handles formed from acanthus leaves with a central mascaron; on the front the saint dividing his cloak for a beggar on crutches, inscription with content below, initials with date ''1702'' on the reverse. H. 43 cm. - Restorations.
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Candlestick — Byzantine, 6th-8th c.
On three small feet with a curved plate, the shaft with multiple nodi and a protruding eaves bowl and spike, three marks on the underside (for possession of Demetrius, son of Timothy). Bronze, beautiful patina with green. H. 31.2 cm. - O. Wulff: Altchristliche und mittelalterliche, byzantinische und italienische Bildwerke, vol. 1 / Tafelband, 1909, 995 - 997; Ausst.-Kat. Kirchenschätze des christlichen Ostens: Metallikonen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 1986, p. 83; O. Kuile: Koper and Brons, 1986, no. 41.
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Multi-field icon with oklad — Russia, Yaroslavl - 18th century
With Christ Pantocrator, accompanied by four large panels with multi-figured scenes of saints, silver-plated metal oklad with embossed tendril decoration, inscribed in Cyrillic script. Egg tempera and gold on wood. 38.5 x 32.5 cm. - Signs of age. - Museum object from an important collection.
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Madonna and child — 16th century
Rare half-figure on a cloud base, dressed in a red, belted dress with a blue cloak, above which is the child Jesus, dressed in a loincloth, on her lap. Hardwood, carved, colored and partially gilded. H. approx. 85 cm. - Signs of age, new painted, minor frame losses.
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Enthroned Mother of God with baby Jesus — Swabian, 2nd half of the 15th century
On an octagonal, flat base, the seated, crowned Mary, dressed in a long, pleated robe and cloak, holding the child standing on her left knee with both hands. Linden wood, carved. H. 68 cm. - From the possession of Prof. Dr. Eduard Arning, part of the collection exhibition of the Hamburg Art Association ''Holplastiken des Mittelalters und der Barockzeit'' in 1932 under the directory number 13 ''St. Maria mit Kind''.
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Riera i Arago, Josep Maria — ''Mandala''
(Barcelona 1954 b.) Three round copper etchings printed in three colours on handmade paper in the workshops of Masafumi Yamamoto. All three signed by hand and numbered ''3/39''. Ø 35 cm each; in a wooden case with cast aluminium bas-relief, total 39,5 x 39,5 x 5 cm. - Provenance: Galerie Aurieya, Barcelona, then southern German private collection.
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Beauvoir, Hélène de — ''Les Faneurs 2''
(The Haymakers) (Paris 1910-2001 Goxwiller) Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right ''(19)57''. 65 x 81 cm. - Provenance: South German private collection. - Cf. Die Malerin Helene de Beauvoir, p. 29, ill. 14 (different colour combination)
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Brueghel, Abraham — Still Life with Fruit, Flowers and a Silver Vessel
(Antwerp 1631-1690 Naples) Southern fruits such as pomegranates, figs and grapes draped on a forest floor in front of columned architecture next to a magnificent vessel full of lavishly blooming flowers, on the left a view of a wooded landscape. Oil on canvas. 68 x 91 cm. - According to the accompanying expertise by Dr Klaus Ertz, painted in Italy in the 1670s.
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Savery, Roelant and Bartholomew Spranger — Actaion surprises Diana bathing in the forest
(Kortrijk 1576/78-1639 Utrecht; Antwerp 1546-1611 Prague) Forest landscape with stream, on the bank Diana with her companions, who are surprised by the hunting Actaion, whereupon the goddess transforms him into a stag. Oil on canvas, relined. 89 x 135 cm. - According to the accompanying expertise (titled ''Artemis und Aktäon'') from 1971, the painting comes from the estate of Countess Melanie Habsburg-Lothringen and Countess Marianne Ségur-Cabanac. It was previously attributed to Abraham Govaerts (Antwerp 1589-1626 ibid.), but according to the Austrian painting expert Kurt Kalb in agreement with his colleagues Georg Schnee, Graz, and Josef Rogner, Vienna, Prof. Emmerich Schaffran, Vienna, the landscape is by Roelant Savery and the staffage by Bartholomäus Spranger and was painted at the beginning of the 17th century.
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Tàpies, Antoni and Pere Gimferrer — Portfolio ''Aparicions''
(Barcelona 1923-2012 ibid.) Portfolio with nine graphic works by Antoni Tapies and a poem by Pere Gimferrer. Aquatint etchings with relief printing. Signed by the author and artist in the imprint with edition ''68/99''. In illustrated cloth portfolio and illustrated slipcase. Total 47 x 34 x 4 cm..
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A magnificent chandelier with twelve flames — Meissen, 2nd half of the 20th century
After the design by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1762, for the New Palace in Potsdam as a commission from Frederick II of Prussia. Two-zoned construction on a baluster shaft, in the lower part a large bulging cul-de-lamp in the style of baroque incense lamps with a partly lattice-like openwork corpus and a hanging bas-de-lustre of a large flower arrangement, inserted eight candelabrum arms formed of two opposite C rocailles with leaf-like spouts and eaves bowls, suspended from the arms eight ''pendulum soques'' of flower bundles, the upper level corresponding, but only with four chandelier arms and smaller ''pendulum soques'', between them four ladies playing music on the shaft with their instruments or singing. canaries are sitting on three arms. Porcelain with polychrome painting and gold decoration. Several parts with underglazed blue sword mark, model number ''79045''. H. approx. 150 cm, Ø approx. 90 cm.
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Strang, Peter — Wall Sculpture ''The Flying Carpet''
(Dresden, born 1936) For the porcelain manufactory Meissen, from the series ''1001 and one night'', design 1968, near-contemporary. Porcelain with sparingly coloured painting and rich gold decoration. Verso underglaze blue sword mark with three grinding strokes and white incision, model number ''73361'', embosser ''102'', painter ''36''. 19 x 21 cm.
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Komuro Suiun — Hanging scroll with ''Three friends of the cold season'' and rising sun
(Yagoecho 1874-1945) Pine, bamboo, plum in front of a red sun disk. Ink and colours with gold speckles on silk. With signature and seal. 34 x 50,3 cm, brocade mount overall. 133 x 65 cm. - In two wooden boxes.
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Barockschrank - Franken, um 1750
Baroque wardrobe — Franconia, circa 1750 Veneered oak and walnut wood. 216 x 185 x 74 cm. - Sings of age.
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The Adoration of the Magi
The Adoration of the Magi
ANTWERP MANNERIST, circa 1520
Panel painting, oil on wood, cradling on the reverse
Height: 109 cm, width: 70.5 cm
Provenance: private collection, Southern Germany
Literature: Max J. Friedländer: Die Antwerpener Manieristen von 1520. In: Jahrbuch der königlich preußischen Kunstsammlungen 36 (1915), pp. 65–91.
See the publications of the exhibition ExtravagAnt! A forgotten Chapter of Antwerp Painting 1500-1530, Koninklijk Museum vor Schone Kunsten Antwerp, 15 October – 31 December 2005, Antwerp 2005. URL: https://www.codart.nl/guide/agenda/extravagant-antwerpse-schilderijen-voor-de-europese-markt-1500-1525/
The painting of the Adoration of the Magi was created around 1520 by a painter from the group of the so-called Antwerp Mannerists.
The scene is set in the ruins of a richly decorated temple, which offers a view of a city with a surrounding mountainous landscape in the background. In the centre sits Mary, with brown hair and a dark blue cloak. The Infant Jesus on her lap seems touchingly small and delicate. Joseph, with grey hair and beard, is standing behind the two of them, obviously absorbed in conversation with one of the companions of the Wise Men. The holy kings, who present their gifts in filigree decorated gold vessels, symbolize both the three continents known at that time and the three ages of men. The king kneeling to the right in front of mother and child stands for Europe and the old age, the king placed on the left, with turban and an orientally dressed servant in the background, represents Asia and the middle age, while the black king at the right side embodies Africa and youth.
The term Antwerp Mannerists, introduced by the art historian Max J. Friedländer, covers a number of artists from the first third of the 16th century who practiced an extremely decorative and detailed style, which was not, however, influenced by the Italian Mannerism of the time, but had developed from the late Gothic traditions of early Netherlandish painting, which is characterised by its attention to detail, up to the quasi-photorealistic reproduction of surface structures and landscapes.
The great success of Antwerp Mannerism was closely linked to the rise of Antwerp to one of the most flourishing commercial centres in Europe. Around 1500, the city was a central hub of international trade. This also fuelled the art market and offered ideal conditions for painters who created their altars and panel paintings specifically for export.
The theme of the Adoration of the Kings was particularly suitable for this, as it was very popular and in demand throughout Europe. The depiction of the three wise men opened up a multitude of creative possibilities, starting with the imaginative design of exotic garments, which wrapped the figures in extravagant drapery, to the splendid gifts, to the fantastic architecture, which combined Gothic and Renaissance motifs in eclectic splendour.
The style of these compositions is ornate and extravagant, naturalistic reproduction or even realism took a back seat in favour of the decorative effect. Antwerp Mannerism created representative and highly modern showpieces of the period between 1500 and 1530 - a "fashion statement", so to speak, of this turbulent epoch of transition from late Gothic to Renaissance.
The painterly execution is technically virtuoso. The Antwerp Mannerists paid more attention to the meticulous depiction of a variety of details, some of them densely packed, than to the monumental overall effect of their pictorial compositions. This was and is the secret of the paintings' success: they offer the viewer the opportunity to immerse him or herself in an abundance of interesting supporting scenes and to discover numerous surprising subtleties.
The painting presented here is an excellent example of the artistic skill, precision and inventiveness of the Antwerp Mannerists, who did not sign their paintings and therefore, with few exceptions, are to this day not known by name.
Splendid wall mirror in the Rococo style Thuringia, probably Sitzendorf, 20th century.
Rectangular shape with small, stepped mirror crown, holder for three candles curved at lower edge, frame decorated with appliqué flowers and foliage as well as six winged putti. Porcelain with polychrome painting and gold decoration. 84 x 44 cm. - Restorations, candlestick arms missing.
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