With four finely cast and engraved silver gilt plaques probably of an earlier date c.1580 and probably Nuremburg; these plaques depict stories from Noah’s ark and with some subtle variations are based on woodcuts by the Swiss born artist Jost Amman.
Jost Amman moved to Nuremberg in 1560 and lived and worked
there until his death in 1591; the piece is approximately 13 cms in diameter
and 8 cms tall.
The workmanship of the filigree is very close to that on the filigree and Boulle work toilet mirror, the inlay work of the mirror (below) is ascribed to the workshop of Johan Puechwiser (1680 - 1744) of Munich, which I will cover in much more detail in a future post.
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Jost Amman (1539-1591) was a prolific maker of images as an artist and engraver. He was born in Zurich and in 1560 moved to Nuremberg. His Book of Trades published in 1568, of the jobs that exist in Society, each image with a piece of verse by Hans Sachs.
Another encyclopedic enterprise is the Panoplia Omnium
Liberalium Mechanicarum et Sedentariarum Artium Genera Continens, containing
115 plates.
see - https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/exhibitions/pdfs/2017/in-library-amman.pdf
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