Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942)

by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942)

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

by Robert Mitchell

they sit before an empty handled feeding bowl

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942)An 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