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DUTCH MARITIME GLORY
THIS LOT IS SOLD PURSUANT TO A SETTLEMENT AG REEMENT
BETWEEN THE HEIRS OF EUGEN GUTMANN AND THE ESTATE OF
ALEXIS GREGORY
A NAUTILUS CUP WITH DUTCH SILVER-
GILT MOUNTS, JACOB CLAESZ
EXHIBITED
DE Der Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums, Berlin, 1906 no.
GREBBER, AMSTERDAM, 1628
314
De wereld binnen handbereik, Historisch Museum,
Amsterdam, 25th June-11th October 1992, cat 107 illustrated
modelled as a triumph of the sea, the shaped do med base
fitted with Neptune’s bulls, chased with dolphins.
fitted base
plate engraved Ter dankbaare gedagtenis van I.C. L toege
Eygent aan den Ed.
Here Veryfel 1743, aroused me rman
stem astride a monster, straps in the form of pipe blowing
figures, surmounted by half man half beast, poss ibly Nessus
triumphantly holding a fish and carrying Deianira, the cove
with finial of Neptune on the tail of a sea horse go ading it o
with his trident, replaced shell, marked on lip mou n
40.5cm
LITERATURE
Otto von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann
1912, no 148
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/falke1912/0060
Weltkunst, vol.
16in high
1444gr, 46oz 6dwt all in
10, 15th may 1983 illus.
1357
Hans-Ulrich Mette, Der Nautiluspokal, Munich, 1995 pp.
168,
169 and 253.
, Berlin,
Illustrated
Dr Pieter Biesboer, Delfts Zilver,
Zwolle, 2020, pp.44 an 54 illus.
PROVENANCE
Hugo Verijssel, 1743
with Charles Wertheimer before 1904
Eugen Gutmann, by 1904 and until his death in 1 925
Eugen Gutmann Collection administered by Gut mann family
trust (Trustenad N.V.
of Amsterdam) until 1942
Karl Haberstock and Julius Böhler, Munich 1942- 1945.
(Gutmann liste no.
79)
Henry Nyburg London, 1946
Lion Morpurgo, acquired from the above
Morpurgo gallery, Amsterdam, 1983
Joseph Ritman, acquired 1983
Sotheby’s Geneva, The Joseph R.
ASSOCIATED LITERATURE
The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet/Georgius Everhardus
Rumphius; translated, edited, annotated, and with an
introduction by E.M.Beekman, London 1999
Karin Leonhard, Shell collecting.
Ritman Collect ion, 15th May
1995, lot 53
Galerie Neuse, Bremen 1995-97
Alexis Gregory, New York
On 17th
Curiosity Cabinets and still life paintings
The construction of animals in Science, Literature and the
Visual arts, 2007
Frits van Dulm, Zonder eigen gewinne en Glorie,
2012, p.
century Conchology,
, Early modern zoology:
Hilversum,
54, footnote 96 for information on Hugo Verijssel
Simon Goodman, The Orpheus Clock: the search for my
family’s art treasures stolen by the Nazis, 2015
◉ £ 400,000- 600,00
Detail of hallmark s
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