A Remarkable Silver Filigree and Enamel Box.

 

A Fabulous Silver Filigree and Enamel Box.

 Unmarked, presumably South German, around 1700.

H 4; W 11; D 10 cm.

At Auction with Lempertz, Koln, Germany. Lot 763, 29 May 2020.

Parcel gilt oval box decorated throughout with pierced filigree acanthus leaves, the slightly domed lid with corresponding décor and inset with an enamelled copper panel depicting various types of tulips. 

 

The finely painted enamel is similar to works by the Nuremberg based engraver and enamel painter Georg Strauch (1613 – 73) see below.

 

Literature -

Cf. A pair of flasks with identical flower still lifes by Gerhard Strauch in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, illus. in cat.: GNM 2007, no. 513. For more on Strauch, cf.: Weinhold, Emailmalerei an Augsburger Goldschmiedearbeiten von 1650 - 1750, Munich 2000, p. 24 ff.

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A Pair of 17th Century Screw Top Canisters

H. 16 cm; H. with handle 16.3 cm, W. 14 cm; D. 12.5 cm.

Nuremburg.

The Enamel Panels by Gerhard Strauch.

Matthäus Ströbel (master 1644, died 1691) (goldsmith).

Georg Strauch (1613-1675) (enamel painter).

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