Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold they sit before an empty

they sit before an empty handled feeding bowl

He left for Italy in 1808 and lived there until 1816

5" deep (47

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

a rare & important piece of Americana

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Sold they sit before an emptyAn 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