Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Decorative Arts The white enamel clock dial

The white enamel clock dial having black Arabic numerals

the vase mounted with Arts and Crafts copper metal mounts and inset with elongated turquoise cabochons

Buchanan to the lower right

Caesari was born in Rome in 1568 and his family came from Arpino in central Italy

circa 1990

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Decorative Arts The white enamel clock dialAn 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