An important Transylvanian breast rosette

157 - An important Transylvanian breast rosette

Sighisoara (Segesvár), master mark HC, cica 1500 Türkisen. Rückseitige Spange mit Scharnier. Verso zweifach mit dem Meisterzeichen "HC" Silver-gilt decorated with garnets, turquoises and spiralling cones. Hinged hasp on the reverse stamped vith master's mark "HC". unterbrochen, die Hermenfiguren tragen. Die hohe Randzone ist flächenfüllend mit kräftig Diam. 11.1 cm besetzt. Die flache Mittelplatte ist durchbrochen gearbeitet. Mittig thront die Provenance: A Transylvanian Private Collection Blüten mit Steinbesatz münden. Der Meister HC ist zwar verzeichnet, konnte aber bisher Hexafoil, the sides decorated with spiralling studs and ropetwist borders and set with garnets and turquoises. Centering figures of the Virgin and Child flanked by saints, within openwork Gothic niches surrounded by turquoises and hardstones. Marked twice on hinged hasp. Grafen Eszterházy belegen, wurden derartige Heftel von Adligen in Siebenbürgen als Very fine overall condition. Ornamental breast rosettes were worn by both aristocratic men and women in early modern Transylvania. Portraits of Bálint Balassi and Countess Eszterházy are showing them with similar breast rosettes. This example, with its religious iconography is similar to surviving examples in Church treasuries and museums like the collection of the Hungarian National Museum. A closely related work, incorporated into a reliquary is also in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum. These examples, with its religious iconography and surviving examples in Church treasuries, suggest that breast rosettes have also been used to fasten pontifical copes. Zeit und entwickelte sich zu einem rein ornamentalen Schmuckstück. Hexafoil, the sides decorated with spiralling studs and ropetwist borders and set with garnets and turquoises. Literatur: I. Bielz: Arta aurarilor sasi din Transilvania, Bukarest 1957, Abb. 39. H. Klusch: Siebenbürgische Goldschmiedekunst, Bukarest 1988, Abb. 2. J. H. Kolba - A. T. Németh, Goldschmiedearbeiten, Budapest 1973, Abb. 30. V. G. Marica: Sebastian Hann, Bukarest 1998, 60-62. Ausstellungskatalog: Silber und Salz in Siebenbürgen, Band 1, Bochum 1999, Kat. 125.

Schäßburg, Meister HC, um 1500

Catalogueprice: 60.000 - 80.000 €

Result: 65.000,00 EUR

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