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Top-stripe of a courtain of silk
Lost Art-ID
616670
Artist
Unknown (Chinese)
Title
Top-stripe of a courtain of silk
Datierung
1875-1900 (ca.)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Fabric
Description
Top-stripe of a courtain of silk; gold embroidered letters on purple ground with symbols of the long live and of the fortune
Provenance
Baron Bertalan Hatvany, Budapest; Lost during WWII; whereabouts unknown
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Literature / Source
List of Art Treasures Removed by Germans from Hungary and not been returned by March, 1948. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 51, No. 54; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, p. 220, No. 16601
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