Sunday, May 26, 2019

Bavaria Trip Report Day 11: Munich Royal Residence (Residenz) Part 2

Silver here:










 Ivory in photo frames








Royal/State Apartments




















Some porcelain tableware















Apartments again


















We went out into the courtyard and had some food. 
 Saw our Trident guy from the Bronzes section here also... said hi to him

TREASURY:

Treasury was next



 Pearl studded Bible cover

 Medallion




This is a truly AWESOME PIECE! Got zoomed up pics of each part








 CORAL and IVORY


 A TERRIFIC ALTAR





 IVORY and Coral

IVORY








 Bible covers





 AMBER... SO AWESOME






















 CRYSTAL... Note the handles too










 Now lapidary work with craft pieces made of semi precious gems
Lapis Lazuli here














 Jade..




Amber in the following 4 pics...




For scale, look at this pic, zoom of the 2nd shelf bird follows











 Again For scale, look at this pic, zoom of objects follows
 Mother-of-pearl conch



  Zoom of all these follows













Mother of pearl and real pearls 










CORAL





Zoom of 2nd shelf box follows...


 Metal relief work ; zoom of top shelf follows



Enamel



 IVORY






More ivory












 There are several videos which I'll upload after processing. 

Residenz is an AMAZING MUSEUM... ABSOLUTELY TOP NOTCH!

We exited the museum and went toward the Theater. Met up with our familiar bronze guys at the fountain






 This is Max Joseph platz









 We had had a great day. We returned to our hotel, picked up our bags 


Walked to the hauptbahnhof entrance with lift to the S bahn; took S 7 bahn to the Airport (45 minutes). Caught the hotel shuttle with no hassles and reached our hotel NH hotel Munich Airport for the night








Germany is GREAT... such a beautiful country and such warm friendly people!!

We were so happy!

Belgium part of our trip continues here:
https://adventuretrav.blogspot.com/2019/05/belgium-trip-report-day-12-flight-into.html


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