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Hanau Silver Bejewelled Cabochon Musician - 13 Loth, Trumpet Player
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Reference: S11136
Period: Victorian
Year: Circa 1880
Silversmith:
Place: Hanau
Price: $ 400.00
Weight: 110 grams
Dimensions: 11.4 cm height
Condition: Excellent.
Description: An interesting solid silver figure of a musician playing a trumpet, decorated with coloured cabochon "jewels" in red, blue and green. The figure is beautifully modelled, the detail is astounding, clearly the work of a master craftsman. A total of 21 cabochons are present, we assume they are paste of glass, to simulate rubies, sapphires and emeralds, the cabochon in the hat is larger than the others. The texturing of the hat, hair and stockings is all done by hand. Their are traces of gilding on the figure, at end of trumpet and under coat. The figure only has one hallmark, a clear 13 in shield, quite a stylised 3, this is for 13 Loth silver, or 812 standard, used in Germany prior to 1888, hence our dating of the figure as circa 1880. Whilst no makers mark is present, we are confident it originates in Hanau, Germany, where a number of similar bejewelled figures were made, including a number of musicians. A number can be seen on the Pushkin Antiques website, www.pushkinantiques.com, in the archive/ sold section of their German silver. The Hanau silver industry produced Historicist silver copying Medieval, Classical and Baroque styles, in the late 19th and early 20th century. They were not regulated, and often used fantasy hallmarks, or left items without hallmarks.
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Hanau Silver Bejewelled Cabochon Musician - 13 Loth, Trumpet Player
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Hanau silver bejewelled cabochon musician
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Hanau silver trumpet player with jewels
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Continental silver musician
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Base of silver figure
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13 loth silver hallmark - cabochon jewels
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Hanau silver musician, 13 loth, scale
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Hanau Silver Bejewelled Cabochon Musician scale
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Hanau Silver musician, back view
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Cabochon Musician hat, top view
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Cabochons on arms - silver figure
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antique silver base with jewels
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