AN AUSTRIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER LARGE NEO-CLASSICAL TORAH SHIELD, MAKER'S MARK A.R. PROBABLY FOR THE WIDOW OF ANTON RECHINGER, VIENNA, 1813
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November 20, 08:47 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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AN AUSTRIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER LARGE NEO-CLASSICAL TORAH SHIELD, MAKER'S MARK A.R. PROBABLY FOR THE WIDOW OF ANTON RECHINGER, VIENNA, 1813
of good weight, modelled as a tasseled ermine mantle, realistically chased and suspended from a ribbon-bow, applied with the Tablets below a gilt crown and the Imperial Arms, flanked by columns topped by lions rampant regardant, with small window for portion plaques, one fitted, marked near base, has suspension chains
height 14 in.
35.5 cm
Sotheby’s, New York, sale 5108 lot 179
See Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Silber, 1781-1866, where several marks for Rechinger, who entered the guild 1789 and died in 1812, are shown, none exactly the same as the present one, with the comment “ His widow Anna is found in 1813 and 1814 in the guild lists; she probably used the same mark”, p 126.