Jan 29, 2025 10:00 EST
Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture
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Swedish Baroque Gilt-Lead Mounted and Cobalt-Blue Mirror, attributed to Burchard Precht
Circa 1720
Height 85 inches (215 cm), width 45 1/2 inches (150.5 cm)
Burchard Precht (1651-1738), sculptor and cabinet-maker from Bremen, was educated in Hamburg by his brother Christian Precht (1666-1774). He then went to Stockholm in 1674 to work at Drottningholm palace, where he created the Royal bedchamber. In 1681, he was recommended for the position of Royal cabinet maker and sculptor by the royal architect N. Tessin, the Younger. Precht was very influential in his time and was instrumental in disseminating the Swedish baroque style also called the Precht style which had absorbed French and Italian influences.
Related literature:
Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London, p. 297, fig. 678
$6,000 - $8,000
Circa 1720
Height 85 inches (215 cm), width 45 1/2 inches (150.5 cm)
Notes:
Burchard Precht (1651-1738), sculptor and cabinet-maker from Bremen, was educated in Hamburg by his brother Christian Precht (1666-1774). He then went to Stockholm in 1674 to work at Drottningholm palace, where he created the Royal bedchamber. In 1681, he was recommended for the position of Royal cabinet maker and sculptor by the royal architect N. Tessin, the Younger. Precht was very influential in his time and was instrumental in disseminating the Swedish baroque style also called the Precht style which had absorbed French and Italian influences.
Related literature:
Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London, p. 297, fig. 678
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Central upper terminal missing small piece at top, one small pendant at proper right needs repairs, further on central molded mirror plate with crystallization and oxidation, the blue glass surround with minuscule hairline fractures, gilding overall slightly rubbed revealing red bole.
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Auction: Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture, Jan 29, 2025
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Auction of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings and The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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Auction of English & Continental Silver and English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts on Wednesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle's auction on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 will offer 19th Century & Old Master Paintings & Drawings as well as The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury.
The auction onWednesday, January 29 at 10am will feature English & Continental Decorative Arts and English & Continental Silver.
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