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A Very Rare South German Ivory Powder-Flask In The Manner Of Johann Michael Maucher Of Schwäbish-Gmünd
Late 17th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £7,000

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A Very Rare South German Ivory Powder-Flask In The Manner Of Johann Michael Maucher Of Schwäbish-Gmünd
Late 17th Century

With circular body with central threaded hole with turned and threaded core, carved in high relief with two boars and a stag beset by hounds, one of the boars speared in the mouth by a naked putto, all against a forest landscape, tapering baluster copper nozzle, and hinged tap (spring and suspension rings missing)
10 cm. diam.

Footnotes

The Swabian stockmaker Joahann Michael Maucher was born into a family of wood, ivory and amber carvers in Schwäbisch-Gmünd in 1645, and worked there until 1688. He moved to Augsburg, then Wurzburg in about 1693, where he died in 1701

For further information see Walter Klein, Johann Michael und Christoph Maucher, 1920; and Angelika Ehmer, Die Maucher, 1992

For similar carved wooden examples see Claude Blair, The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, 1974, pp. 395-400; and for a very similar flask see Herbert G. Houze, The Sumptuous Flaske..., 1989, pp. 86-87, colour front and back covers (obverse and reverse sides)

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