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Keywords: English - Automaton with Diana on a Stag - Walters 57923 - Profile.jpg Clever displays of inventiveness with no other purpose than to amuse were valued interludes at the long lavish and sometimes tedious banquets that were part of court life This automaton is a motorized wine decanter Remove the head of the stag fill the body with wine wind up the motor the key hole is in the base and send lovely Diana down the table to your guests This type of table toy was a specialty of goldsmiths in Augsburg and the Walters' piece is close to a version now in New York marked by the Augsburg goldsmith Joachim Fries However details are not as subtle as they should be More research is needed; if not from the early 1600s this automaton is from the early 1800s shortly before its collection history can be established ca 1620 1635 ; early 19th century gilt silver cm 37 1 accession number 57 923 28302 Henry Walters Baltimore 1910 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1910 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 The Splendor of Dresden Five Centuries of Art Collecting an Exhibition from the German Democratic Republic National Gallery of Art Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; California Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco San Francisco 1978-1979 place of origin England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license Baroque sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Silverware from Augsburg Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Sculptures of Diana
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