South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 8 October 2012
Session 2
Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 8 197
About this Item
Geislingen, Germany
A WMF electroplate inkstand, circa 1900
shaped rectangular, modelled with the seated figure of Minerva flanked by a pair of electroplate-mounted glass inkwells, the front with a pair of female half-caryatids flanking a heart-shaped vacant cartouche, on paw and bracket feet, 26,5cm high, 48cm wide
Literature
Antique Collector's Club, Art Nouveau Domestic Metalwork From Wurttembergische Metalwarenfabrik 1906, page 280, illustration 84
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