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live November 27 | 01:30 PM
Coutau-Bégarie

98 - Cast-iron mantelpiece with a bas-relief decoration depicting Saint George, Saint Nicholas, and Saint Anthony, along with scrollwork featuring jagged foliage, pomegranates, and two shields bearing the coat of arms of the House of Baden-Sponheim (quarterly: in the 1st and 4th quarters, Or with a band of Gules; in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, chequered Gules and Argent) and the town of Engenthal (quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure with three silver eagles with outspread wings surmounted by a gules label; 2nd and 3rd, silver with a sable lion charged with a gold carbuncle, with a gules border, overall, gules with a silver cross).

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Estimation

€2,000 - 3,000

Sale fees

30%

Cast-iron mantelpiece with a bas-relief decoration depicting Saint George, Saint Nicholas, and Saint Anthony, along with scrollwork featuring jagged foliage, pomegranates, and two shields bearing the coat of arms of the House of Baden-Sponheim (quarterly: in the 1st and 4th quarters, Or with a band of Gules; in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, chequered Gules and Argent) and the town of Engenthal (quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure with three silver eagles with outspread wings surmounted by a gules label; 2nd and 3rd, silver with a sable lion charged with a gold carbuncle, with a gules border, overall, gules with a silver cross). Middle Rhine, Alsace, circa 1500 H.: 82.5 – W.: 77.5 cm (Visible chips and chips, casting defects, oxidation) The ties between the House of Baden-Sponheim and the Engenthal region (today Wangenbourg-Enghental, in the Bas-Rhin) date back to 1328, when Countess Loretta of Sponheim compelled the Archbishop of Mainz and the lords of Baunshorn to recognize her rights to the Wangenbourg region and to hand over to her, as compensation for damages, pledges and estates.

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Auction details

Meyer Gallery Collection
Friday, November 27
01:30 PM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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