Live Auction 7608Important European Furniture and Sculpture
A TURNED IVORY CUP
Lot 98

A TURNED IVORY CUP

ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF EGIDIUS LOBENIGK, CIRCA 1585

Closed10 July 2008

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GBP 12,500

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A TURNED IVORY CUP
ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF EGIDIUS LOBENIGK, CIRCA 1585
The cup of bulbous oval form and on a turned baluster stem with rings and oval spreading foot; minor shrinkage cracks
10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

The shape, style of carving and the very distinctive off-centred fixing of the baluster stem into the base of the cup offered here is very similar to a group of vessels monogrammed by the ivory turner to the Dresden court, Egidius Lobenigk (active between 1584-1595). The most comparable examples are the oval cup and cover in the Grünes Gewölbe, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Syndram and Scerner, loc. cit.) dated 1586, and another with Georg Laue from the same period (Laue, loc. cit.).