A SILVER-GILT FIGURE OF DIANA

Name: GERMAN, POSSIBLY JOHANNES LEUCKER, 17TH CENTURY
Brand: A SILVER-GILT FIGURE OF DIANA
Price: 6500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 8,125

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USD 3,000 - USD 5,000

Closed: 19 Jun 2020

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GERMAN, POSSIBLY JOHANNES LEUCKER, 17TH CENTURY

A SILVER-GILT FIGURE OF DIANA

Price Realised USD 8,125

Closed: 19 Jun 2020

Price Realised USD 8,125

Closed: 19 Jun 2020

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GERMAN, POSSIBLY JOHANNES LEUCKER, 17TH CENTURY
A SILVER-GILT FIGURE OF DIANA
Depicted with her arm out-stretched and on a later ebonized base
10¹⁄₄ in. (26 cm.) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, overall

Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 May 1986, lot 71.

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Lot Essay

The present lot was clearly part of larger composition, possibly with Diana riding astride a stag or on a chariot, as these figures were central features of the splendid mechanical creations and drinking cups so beloved at royal and aristocratic dinner tables and in the 17th century. There are two similar figures of Diana, both recently featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition, one from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection and the other from the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (17.190.746 and 19.2a-b). This lot also closely resembles the figures on a ewer and basin in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (KK4128-4129.) The sinuous maidens supporting the mollusk shells don nearly identical headdresses.