WINE COOLER – Vienna 1827
mark: „ST MAYERHOFER“ (Stephan Mayerhofer)
Height: 16 cm
silver, 22 ounces

PAIR OF PERCUSSIONS PISTOL'S in original cassette - Prague, ca. 1840/50
Locks signed "LEBEDA" (Anton Vinzenz d.Ä. 1797-1857)
Measure: 20 x 11,4 x 2,8'' (51 x 29 x 7 cm)
Rifled, octogonal, damask, engraved at the base with effigy of dignitary on bilt background, precision foresight, floral engravings at the tangs provided with adjustable rear-sight, locks engraved with foliage, wooden stocks, checkered at the butts, floral motifs sculpted at the butt-plates, iron mounts, counter-plates sculpted with foliage, trigger guards engraved en suite, blued triggers. Silver shields at the back. Wooden case lined with green cloth and complete with all tolls.

MANICURE CASE - Balthasar Wigand (1770-1846), Vienna, circa 1830
Maße: 8,1 x 5,9 x 2,8‘‘ (20,5 x 15,5 x 7 cm)
Wood with mother-of-pearl and fire gilded bronze mouldings, one oval gouache on paper by Wigand with the Viennese “Karlskirche” on the top (marked “Die Karlskirche Wien”), Swiss musical mechanism.
Provenance: private property Trieste (personal property of the treasurer of Imperator Maximilian I. of Mexico (1832-1867).
Compare: Gottfried Fliedl, Eva B. Ottilinger, Christian Witt-Dörring, Jean-Louis Gaillemin: Vienne 1815-1848, À l’Epoque Biedermeier, edition Philippe Gentil, Paris 1990, p. 158, fig. 282.282.

PAIR OF GRAND TOUR TABLES - French, circa 1800, with Greek porphyry, height: 13 cm

HOT WATER VESSEL, Mark: Wilhelm Streithof - Vienna, 1804
Height: 44 cm. Silver, ca. 2.700 g

Model of a Cannon - France (?), length: 42,5'' (108 cm), depth: 8,7'' (22 cm)

Model of a Cannon - Europe, ca. 1800, length: 21,7'' (55 cm)

Art Deco Clock with original case - Paris, ca. 1900, signed: “L. Leroy & Cie, Paris, 7 bould de la Madleine“ height: 22 cm

Pair of Candleholders - Mark: “AB”: Szomathely (Steinamanger, Hungary), 1810, height: 26 cm

Enameled Clock, ca. 1900, height: 2,6’’ (5,5 cm)

Bust of Archduke Karl of Austria-Teschen - Vienna, ca. 1820, marble, height: 6,7’’ (17 cm)

Apollo Statuette circa 1790, height: 12‘‘ (30,5 cm, inclusive marble-base)

Biedermeier "Brettluhr" - Vienna, ca. 1840, length: 13,8'' (35 cm), duration of one week.

Églomisé - Ca. 1790, 7,3 x 4,7‘‘ (18,5 x 11,8 cm)

Biedermeier Glass - Height: 5,1’’ (13 cm)

Pair of Wall Lights - Austria, ca. 1730, gilded brass (?), height: 9’’ (23 cm)

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Snuff Box - France, ca. 1800, tortoiseshell, diameter: 3’’ (7,5 cm)

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Mother of pearl Inkstand - Vienna, ca. 1820, height: 4,3’’ (11 cm), length: 3,5 (9 cm)

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PAIR OF PERCUSSIONS PISTOL'S in original cassette - Besancon (F), ca. 1830/40
Signed: "DE VARENNE FILS A BESANCON"
measure: 17,3 x 11 x 3,5'' (44 x 28 x 9 cm)

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Baroque Snuff Box - 18th century, enamel, 3,2 x 2,6 x 1,6’’ (8 x 6,5 x 4 cm)

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Empire-Inkstand - Italy, ca. 1800, height: 5,12’’ (13 cm), length: 7’’ (16 cm), depth: 3,94’’ (10 cm)

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE CANDELABRAS
France, ca. 1810
height: 100 cm
Fire gilded bronze, standing female figure in antique drapery, patinated black-brown, brown-red marble-base, six flambeaus with palmette appliques.

Literature: Krone der Kurpfalz. Barockschloss Mannheim, Geschichte und Ausstattung, Hrsg. Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden Württemberg, Petersburg 2007, S. 150, Abb. 135: Coursaal (418).

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IVORY CUP – Germany, 17th century
Inventory number on the base: “X2.72”
Turned ivory, height: 23 cm
Over the polygonal base, that narrows towards the top are fine worked angled and bevelling pieces concentrically arranged around the stem lying upon each other. Beyond it is the cup with below concave bevelling bowings of the curvature, which regrades to the top and again curves outward.
The use of ivory, one of the first and precious materials, had his first point of culmination at the time of Charlemagne. These works showed the high technical capacity for the Kunstkammer collections. The various geometrical profiles of such pots were shaped with the so called Exzenter on complex turning lathes.

Literature: Harald Siebenmorgen (ed.), “Für Baden Gerettet”. Erwerbungen des Badischen Landesmuseums 1995 aus den Sammlungen der Markgrafen und Großherzöge von Baden, Karlsruhe 1996, p. 76.

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OIL AND VINEGAR SET – Vienna, circa 1830, Baltasar Wigand (1771-1846) attributed
Heigth: 17,5 cm, Length: 20,7 cm, depth: 6,7 cm
Maple, partly ebonised, with mother of pearl inlays, on the sides four framed gouaches with Vedutas: “in Dornbach”, “Aussicht von Heiligenstadt”, “Wien von der Schmelz aus zu sehen” and “Lichtenstein”. Provenance (original adhesive label): Present of King Wilhelm III. of Prussia (1770-1840) to Ferdinand I. (1793-1875), Emperor of Austria.