Balance standard with a counterweight, Wenzel Jamnitzer (attributed to workshop of), c. 1560 - c. 1570

Identification

Title(s)

Balance standard with a counterweight
Tegengewicht van een balans

Object type

counterweight

Object number

BK-17006-B

Description

Tegengewicht, rechthoekig, met afgeschuinde hoeken. De wand is versierd met een met pijlpunten verrijkte eierlijst waarboven bandwerkmotieven en rozetten. De vlakke bovenzijde heeft een gegraveerde decoratie van bloemranken, die gedeeltelijk opgevuld is met groen of wit gekleurde compositie. Hierop rust een hagedis. Het gewicht is gevuld met lood.

Creation

Artist

silversmith: Wenzel Jamnitzer (attributed to workshop of)

Place

Neurenberg

Dating

c. 1560 - c. 1570

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

engraving / gild

Measurements

height 3.6 cm × width 6.4 cm × thickness 5.2 cm

Subject

What

lizards: lizard

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

See the provenance for BK-17006-A.

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Technical studies of renaissance bronzes : the use of neutron imaging and time-of-flight neutron diffraction in the studies of the manufacture and determination of historical copper and alloys, p. 91, afb. 13
Koper en brons [ : 1 1986], Onno ter Kuile
Uit de schatkamer 2 [ : 1 1967], afb. 4
Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten : [Sammlung Mannheimer], p. 96, cat.nr. Taf.180
Katalog der Sammlung F[ritz] M[annheimer], P.197, cat.nr. Si.17 ab
Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann, Otto von Falke, cat.nr. 200
F. Scholten, Johan Gregor van der Schardt and the moment of self-portraiture in sculpture, in: Simiolus 33 (2007/2008), nr. 4, p. 213, afb. 23

Persistent URL

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