The Silver Filigree Wild Men - Wilder Mann, at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum.

 

The 17th /18th Century German Silver Filigree Wild Men - 

Wilder Mann.

at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig.

 Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig inventory no. Kos 364 and Kos 366.

Height (with base) 25.5 cm, (without base) 20.5 cm.

 

After: The Treasures of the Renaissance and the Baroque. Precious works of art from Kunstkammer of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg from the House of Wolfenbüttel, edit. by Rudolf-Alexander Schütte, Braunschweig 1997, p. 42, cat. no. 11.1 and 11.3.

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I have contacted the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum and hope to have more information about these remarkable pieces in due course.

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Information here from -

https://www.rdklabor.de/wiki/Datei:1._H._18._Jahrhundert,_wilde_M%C3%A4nner.jpg#filelinks

https://www.rdklabor.de/wiki/Wilde_Leute

Whilst this blog and my interest is in the main an intellectual exercise

 - of all the objects displayed in the blog I would like to own this fantastic pair of figures.

The Silver Filigree Horse.