Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Decorative Arts Buchanan to the lower right

Buchanan to the lower right

The properties and paraphanelia of this were purchased in 1874 by P

see also a similar inkwell in the David Collection

The white enamel clock dial having black Arabic numerals

each stands on a rectangular red Breccia marble plinth

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Decorative Arts Buchanan to the lower rightAn 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