Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold by Robert Mitchell

by Robert Mitchell

He left for Italy in 1808 and lived there until 1816

with a cobalt blue background

The clock with an 'egg' shaped urn made of cobalt blue Sevres porcelain with a hand-painted panel with a neo-classical beauty and  a cupid

and listed as Item number 18 on page 56

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold by Robert MitchellAn exceptionally rare antique German Renaissance carving by Stephan Rottaler (1581 1533), Bavaria circa 1500. The carving is by Stephan Rottaler, Landshut, Germany, an architect who was a leading figure of Bavarian sculpture in both wood and stone at the beginning of the Renaissance, he produced altars, figures of saints and funerary sculptures. The bust displays a young boy, possibly a novitiate or monastic trainee, the bust is sensitively and finely