Lot n° 79
Estimation :
25000 - 30000
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 3 500EUR
Lock. - Lot 79
Lock.
15, 6 x 7, 58 cm and its key 10, 31 cm.
Very rich and exceptional carved and engraved decoration including on the trigger covers two cherubs heads, on the crown of the foncet two chimeras chase two crows which peck the grapes of the hair of the naked Bacchus on horseback, the sex hanging on a barrel and which holds a cup to each of the two other chimeras which flank him. The background is covered with flowery and fruity scrolls with two mermaids with bifid tails above a bear's head that tops the strongly protruding barrel. On the palatine, the base of the cannon shows, in the same position as the Bacchus, a naked bacchante with goat's legs above a female head in high relief supported by scrolls, where two heads of birds leaning against each other form a heart. That is to say in all, two cherubs, two crows, four chimeras, two mermaids a Bacchus, a bear, a bacchante, a mask of woman, two birds and a heart. The ring of the key with two dolphins, rests on an octagonal base and a molded boss. The shaft is drilled in heart, the bit with a double protruding snout with seven teeth rake, a bouterolle, a full cross with double sickle.
Master piece lock and its key wtih two dolphins in the bow hollow stem in trefoil. The front of the lock chiselled with two winged angel heads, two chimeras chasing tcrows picking the grapes on the head of a Bacchus , his extended arms offering cups to two more chimeras, his legs ridinga barrel on which his sexis hanging. Below this scene two sirens amongst flowered foliage and yet below the headof a bear over ter key guide. On the back of the lock above the key guide base, a naked female body with goat legsover a female mask and two bird heads forming a heart.
Meisterstückschloss und sein Schlüssel mit zwei Delfinen im Bughohlschaft in Kleeblatt. Die Vorderseite des Schlosses ist mit zwei geflügelten Engelsköpfen gemeißelt, zwei Chimären jagen Krähen, die die Trauben auf dem Kopf eines Bacchus pflücken, seine ausgestreckten Arme bieten zwei weiteren Chimären Becher an, seine Beine reiten auf einem Fass, an dem seine Sexis hängt. Unter dieser Szene zwei Sirenenen zwischen blühendem Blattwerk und doch unter dem Kopf eines Bären über der Schlüsselführung. Auf der Rückseite des Schlosses über dem Schlüsselführungssockel ein nackter weiblicher Körper mit Ziegenbeinen über einer weiblichen Maske und zwei Vogelköpfen, die ein Herz bilden.
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