A Small Bronze Group of a Prancing Stag

Bronze, gilt bronze
South Germany; Nuremberg or Augsburg
Late 17th Century / Circa 1620

PROVENANCE:
Ex Private London collection, 1960’s
Ex Private collection through descent

LITERATURE:
K. Pechstein, ‘Nürnberger Brunnenfiguren der Renaissance’, Hambourg and Berlin, 1969, p. 27

This bronze group, made in southern Germany, bears great similarities with the gilded silver table ornaments and mechanical automaton groups favoured by the princely courts of Germany, Austria and Northern Italy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.