Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold sides and legs

sides and legs

5 cm X 62 cm X 56 cm

Eastern Persia or Herat

An unusual antique Russian Imperial silver gilt and Cloisonné enamel table/dinner bell

she is modeled as a nude tambourine dancer

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold sides and legsAn 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