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A Rare South German Miniature Casket (Mankästche)
Early 17th Century, From The Workshop Of Michel Or Conradt Mann Of Augsburg And Nuremberg

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Rare South German Miniature Casket (Mankästche)
Early 17th Century, From The Workshop Of Michel Or Conradt Mann Of Augsburg And Nuremberg

Of gilt-copper and brass, rectangular on four ball feet, the front and back engraved with fruits and foliage, the sides each with a cherub, the bottom with a foliate design against a hatched ground within an engraved border, and the flat hinged lid with a male and female portrait bust in early 17th-century costume, each against a ground of foliage, the lid mounts engraved en suite with the bottom, engraved and pierced mounts (one incomplete) retained by small iron screws, characteristic blued iron mechanism shooting four bolts and with file decoration (some replacements), bow-shaped drop handle (slightly loose) with central baluster mouldings, and later iron key (some wear and loss of gilding overall)
6.5 cm. wide x 5.6 cm. high

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Provenance:
By repute Sir R.E. Mortimer Wheeler, Director of the National Museum of Wales from 1920 to 1926, and Keeper of the London Museum from 1926 to 1944

This belongs to a group of caskets of closely similar design and decoration, many of which bear the signature of either Michel or Conradt Mann. Nothing appears to be recorded about the latter, but the similarity of his signed work to that of Michel's suggests that they worked together. Michel was born in Augsburg and trained in Nuremberg, where he died circa 1630

The Mann workshops also produced miniature guns, pistols and cannons. See Claude Blair, The James A. Rothschild Collection at Waddeston Manor, Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, 1974, pp. 482-487, figs. 219-221

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