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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
CENTRAL EUROPEAN, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED IBEX HORN TROPHY
Details
CENTRAL EUROPEAN, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED IBEX HORN TROPHY
Applied with silver-gilt grape vines; surmounted by two seated, gilt-metal allegorical female figures at either end, both of a later date, and cupid seated on the head of a mountain goat in the center; the support modeled as a merman kneeling on a wave
29 in. (73.7 cm.) long
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED IBEX HORN TROPHY
Applied with silver-gilt grape vines; surmounted by two seated, gilt-metal allegorical female figures at either end, both of a later date, and cupid seated on the head of a mountain goat in the center; the support modeled as a merman kneeling on a wave
29 in. (73.7 cm.) long
Provenance
From the Imperial Hapsburg Collection [by repute]
Anonymous sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 25 November 1953, lot 179.
Anonymous sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 25 November 1953, lot 179.