- Pair of Stags
Augsburg, circa 1680-1700
By Johann Ludwig Biller the Elder
Gilt silver
Stamped ILB on one antler of each model;
ILB and Augsburg mark stamped five times
on each base: (1) on top border of upper rim
of spool; (2) on underside of same; (3) on
top border of lower rim of spool; (4) on
underside of same; (5) on top of border
around foot of base.
Stag .1 (with head bent over proper left
shoulder): Height: 2 ft. 1 in. (63.5 cm);
Width: 1154 in. (28.5 cm); Depth: 8/2 in.
(21.5 cm); Stag .2 (with head bent over
proper right shoulder): Height: 2 ft. 2V16 in.
(66.$ cm); Width: io^5 /s in. (27 cm); Depth:
8 Vs in. (22 cm)
Accession number: 85.SE.442.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Possibly in the collection of King Fer
nando II, Portugal, by 1882; (sold, Sotheby's,
Geneva, May 15,1984, lot 66); [Albrecht
Neuhaus, W٧rzburg].
EXHIBITIONS
(?) Lisbon, Exposigδo Retrospectiva de Arte
Ornamental, 1882, vol. 1, no. 57, p. 245;
vol. 2, no. 37.
408
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's 1983-1984
(London, 1984), p. 288; Deutscher Kunst
handel im Schloss Charlottenburg (Berlin,
1985), pp. 74-75; "Acquisitions/1985,"
GettyMusJ 14 (1986), no. 221, p. 254, illus.;
Lorenz Seelig, "Jagdliche Motive in der
Goldschmiedekunst des. 16 bis 18 Jahr
hunderts," Weltkunst 59, (February 1989),
p. 234, pi. 2.
GERMAN METALWORK 235
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