?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER Interlaced Cord Pattern with a Heart-Shaped Center.
Woodcut, 1505-7. 270x213 mm; 10 5/8x8 1/2 inches. Second state (of 2). A very good Meder 2a impression, with the artist's monogram on the shield. Small Augsburg coat-of-arms with the letters A and M watermark (Meder 179, which he dates to circa 1580). Ex-collection Holtkott, ink stamp verso (not in Lugt). With thread margins or trimmed to the edge of the image.
According to Passavant, Durer's woodcuts from the series of so-called Six Knots were based on Italian engravings from the circle of Leonardo da Vinci.
An extremely scarce print; we have not found another impression at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 140; Meder 274.
