Agate bowl mounted in enameled gold - Lot 32

Agate bowl mounted in enameled gold Attributed to the workshop of Hans Kobenhaupt Germany (Stuttgart?), early 17th century H. 16.5 cm; L. 18.8 cm Provenance Grand Duke Friedrich I von Baden (1826-1907), Castle of Karlsruhe; by descent to his son, Grand Duke Friedrich II von Baden (1857-1928), Neues Schloss, Baden-Baden; by inheritance to his cousin, Maximilien von Baden (1867-1929), Imperial Chancellor ; by descent to his son, Berthold von Baden (1906-1963), Margrave of Baden; by descent to his son, Maximilian von Baden (1933-2022), Margrave of Baden; its sale : Sotheby's Baden-Baden, Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grossherzöge von Baden, Oct. 5-21. 1995, vol. II Kunstkammer, lot 381; private collection, Switzerland; its sale : Sotheby's, New York, February 2, 2024, lot 607. Labels under the foot for the Koelitz inventory 1883: no. 63 and for the Richter inventory 1919ff: no. 273 Sources Karl Koelitz, Beschreibendes Inventar (Katalog) der Allerhöchsten Privatsammlung kunstgewerblicher Gegenstände (Zähringer museum), Aufgestellt in der Räumen des ehemaligen Grossherzoglichen Naturalienkabinets, Karlsruhe, 1883. Richter: Inventar des Zähringer Museums, Aufgestellt in den Räumen des Kavalierbaues des Großherzoglichen Schlosses in Baden-Baden, 1919ff. Condition: Two very small chips on the edge of the foot. There is some minor loss of enamel, as well as two small holes in the metal (perhaps for originally attaching ornaments). Our bowl was first mentioned in the inventory of Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826-1907), in 1883. It was probably part of the Grand Duke's Naturaliencabinet at Karlsruhe Palace. On his death, when his estate was divided, it was exhibited in the rooms of the Neues Schloss in Baden-Baden. The famous silversmith Hans Kobenhaupt (†1623), active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, worked in Stuttgart for the court of the Dukes of Württemberg.