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A Very Rare South German Ivory Powder-Flask In The Manner Of Johann Michael Maucher Of Schwäbish-GmündLate 17th Century
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Find your local specialistA Very Rare South German Ivory Powder-Flask In The Manner Of Johann Michael Maucher Of Schwäbish-Gmünd
Late 17th Century
Late 17th Century
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)








