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Saddle (selle) (Back)

Saddle (selle) (Back)
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Front and underside

Detail, front

Right side

Detail, right side

Detail, right side

Detail, right side

Left side

Detail, left side

Detail, left side

Detail, left side

Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Religious. Saints.

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Riggisberg, Abegg-Stiftung

Inv. 5.56.79

Stag horn;lime wood;leather

Height: 360mm
Width: 510mm
Depth: 385mm

Left side: saint George and the dragon; courting couple holding hands (meeting of lovers); youth holding a vessel; man wearing a houppelande with long dagged-edged sleeves, fighting a female-headed hybrid with a club; seated musicians blowing horns; lady with musician playing the lute; courting couple; saint George and the dragon (repeated); dragon; trees.
Right side: Courting couples (meeting of lovers); offering of the heart; youth holding a vessel; lady holding a mirror; musician playing drums; man killing a dragon; couple embracing; trees; flowers; hybrids; scrolls in the shape of a 'v' and an 'e'. Support plates: man or angel holding a coat of arms.
Chequered pattern. Foliated decoration.

Museum's opinion 2013: c. 1850.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of a substance blackened with soot or graphite.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Missing: some of the stag horn plates on both sides.

Comments
This saddle is copied after the so-called Trivulzio saddle now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 40.66).

Provenance
Collection of Harald Lerchenperg, Kitzbühl; purchased from Math. Lempertz, Cologne, in 1979 (Auction 67, 'Alte Kunst', lot 1847).


Image

© Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg (Christoph von Viràg).

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