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Dish with St. Francis holding a cross
Lost Art-ID
311249
Artist
Unknown (Italienisch / Castel Durante)
Title
Dish with St. Francis holding a cross
Datierung
1525 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
20.82 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 299
Description
A CASTEL DURANTE PORTRAIT DISH ON FOOT, painted on a rich dark blue ground with a half length figure of St. Francis holding a cross, in grey habit, the hair, moustache and beard enriched with yellow, the hands and face in grisaille touched with blue, on a white ribbon scroll inscribed in blue "s. FRANCISEUS", the underside and hollow foot with a pink tinged glaze, a yellow border round the rim, circa 1525
Verlustgeschichte
München, 1938
Die Sammlung (ca. 440 Werke) wurde 1938 in München anläßlich der "Reichskristallnacht" durch die SS beschlagnahmt und 1939 (7./8.06 und 19./20.07.) in London bei Sotheby´s versteigert.
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Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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