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Knife and Fork
Lost Art-ID
208382
Artist
Title
Knife and Fork
Datierung
1600-1701
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
ivory : steel / carved
Measures
22 cm Länge Messer; 20 cm Länge Gabel
Length
22.00 cm
Inventory number
K 363 / K 364
Description
Knife and fork with ivory handles, carved with animals in low relief and four three-dimensional figures each; cracks through the handles.
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. 86r, Nr. 84; Inventar 1830, fol. 9r, Nr. 65; Inventar 1858, Bd. I, Kap. XXV, Nr. 187, 188; Aldenhoven Plastk, Elfenbein Nr. 91, 92
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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