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JEANNE LANVIN / CASTILLO - Haute couture - Early years of Antonio Castillo / 50s - Daytime suit and coat. Approx. T36 The ensemble is cut from black and blue-gray wool tweed. Long-sleeved jacket with buttoned cuffs. The shoulders are accentuated by two chest pockets. Marked waist and short basque concealing two pockets in the seam. The model has a pointed collar and closes at the front with 4 large buttons. Black reps lining. Stitched label on back: Jeanne Lanvin / Castillo. Partly decipherable bolduc on the back of the second label. The skirt is high-waisted with a zipper and hook at the hip. Sheath shape covering the knees. Black silk crepe lining. Unbranded. The overcoat in the same material is fully lined with a plaid wool in the same monochrome. The original ¾ sleeve is covered with a pilgrim collar. Ample cut, closed by three large buttons. The front features two slit pockets highlighted by decorative flaps. Claw stitched on the reverse of one panel, identical to the jacket but without bolduc. Overall: Few small threads drawn into the tweed. The linings have white storage stains and the fabric is dusty. A few loose stitches on the lining towards an armpit. The coat: Few small holes on the pelerine collar. A few loose stitches towards the front of the collar. Bottom and sleeve hems have been undone. Dimensions: Breadth (shoulder to shoulder): 41 cm Chest (armpit to armpit): 48 cm Waist flat: 35 cm Sleeve length: 55 cm Height to middle of back (without collar): 55 cm -Skirt: Waist flat: 30 cm Length: 65 cm -Coat (with hems undone): Breadth (shoulder to shoulder): 45 cm Chest (armpit to armpit): 59 cm Sleeve length: 56 cm (instead of 49) Mid-back height (without collar): 112 cm (instead of 104)

Estim. 300 - 350 EUR

Joachim Scholtz - Polish lidded jug Silver, gilded. The cylindrical body with cast herm handle rests on a foot bulge with engraved landscape reserves. The wall is decorated with finely engraved fruit and birds between three large cornucopia cartouches with scenic depictions of Psalms 30, 41 and 68. The domed hinged lid repeats the decoration of the foot rim. A round reserve with an engraved depiction of the 118th Psalm on the offset crown. Marks: BZ Lissa for the 17th century, MZ Joachim Scholtz (c. 1674 - 1695, cf. Gradowski p. 107), Viennese tax stamp from 1810 - 1824. H 13.3 cm, weight 328 g. Lissa (Leszno) / Poland, Joachim Scholtz, c. 1680. Like the jug mentioned in the cited catalog, this one appears to have originally been used as a communion jug. In both cases, Christ is depicted as an angel in the engraved biblical scenes. And in both the jug in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and ours, the numbering of the psalms in the depictions appears to refer to the Hebrew counting system. In the scene entitled Psalm 118 on the lid, for example, a kneeling figure hands a heart to a standing angel with the tablets of the law. Psalm 119 of the Hebrew count reads: I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commandments. Provenance Kenneth Davis art dealers, London 1994; Westphalian private collection. Literature Scholtz was one of the most important goldsmiths in Lissa. Two of his wine jugs were found in the parish church of the Bohemian Brethren; Scholtz created another jug for the Lutheran church in Lissa (cf. cat. Deutsche Goldschmiedekunst, Berlin 1992, p. 243); cf. also a communion jug by the master in the collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, illustrated ibid. no. 142.

Estim. 12,000 - 15,000 EUR