LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ivory, within an 18th/19th-century glazed ebonised wood, gilt metal and ivory frame with metal mounts

Size Notes:

relief; frame: 26 x 36.6 cm

Markings:

initialled and located: I. E. ROMA

Literature:

F. Schestag,. Katalog der Kunstsammlung des Freiherrn Anselm von Rothschild in Wien , vol. I, Vienna, 1866, p. 22, no. 156;. C. Theuerkauff, 'Der "Helffenbeinarbeiter" Ignaz Elhafen',. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte , XXI, 1968, p. 124, fig. 97;. C. Theuerkauff,. Studien für Elfenbeinplastik des Barock: Matthias Rauchmiller und Ignaz Elhafen , diss. University of Freiburg, Breisgau,1962, pp. 100-101, 124, no. 28, fig. 97;. C. Theuerkauff, 'Baroque ivories from the collection of Anselm Salomon von Rothschild in Vienna',. Apollo , February, 2003, pp. 19, 25, no. 32, fig. 28;. Marburg Photo Index, no. 1.008235, as the. Marriage at Cana

Provenance:

Anselm Salomon Freiherr von Rothschild (1803-1874), Vienna;. private collection, Dusseldorf, circa 1900.