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Knife
Lost Art-ID
208380
Artist
Title
Knife
Datierung
1600-1700
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
ivory : steel : gilding / carved : gilded : engraved
Width
1.80 cm
Length
40.50 cm
Inventory number
K 372
Description
Knife with long, curved ivory handle and gilded blade, engraved with two figures.
Provenance
On December 4, 2009, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Green Vault returned to the Foundation Schloss Friedenstein Gotha 13 ivory objects that had inadvertently reached Dresden when the Soviet Union returned the so-called "looted art" to the then GDR in 1958/59.
Status
restituted
Literature / Source
Inventar 1764, fol. 85v, Nr. 75; Inventar 1830, fol. 10v, Nr. 51; Inventar 1858, Bd. I, Kap. XXV, Nr. 195; Aldenhoven Plastik, Elfenbein Nr. 21
Published since
Contact
Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
Gotha
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
Germany
Phone
0049 (0) 03621 8234-0
Fax
0049 (0) 03621 8234-290
Contact
Dr. Timo Trümper
Position
Kustode für Gemälde und Plastik
Phone
+49 (0) 3621 8234 553
Contact
Dr. Tobias Pfeifer-Helke
Position
Stiftungsdirektor
Phone
+49 (0) 621-8234 100
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