A copper brandy bowl with relief enamel Depicting... Lot 322

A copper brandy bowl with relief enamel Depicting horsemen and dogs hunting a boar and a wild cat. With reddish-blue counter enamel, the border gilded. Localised retouches. H 3.4, W 13.3, D 6.5 cm. Attributed to Germany, second half 17th / early 18th C. Ronde-bosse or encrusted enamel is an enamelling technique developed in France in the late 14th century to produce small three-dimensional figures or reliefs that are mostly or completely covered with enamel. The technique differs from the previously used production methods that apply molten glass to a flat or curved surface or the cell fusion technique. In ronde-bosse enamelling, the copper core is first beaten into a mould, chased, then covered with white and coloured enamel. A brandy bowl of the same form can be viewed in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (acc. no. 1837-1855), but it is only decorated with black-ground enamel and a German drinking motto painted on in white.