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Book box
Lost Art-ID
577971

Artist
Unknown (Langobardisch)
Title
Book box
Dating
801/899
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Wood ; Parchment ; Metal (Bronze) ; Metal (Copper sheet) / gilded ; cast ; die-cut
Height
26.00 cm
Width
14.40 cm
Inventory number
KG 1133
Description
Wood with parchment cover and fire-gilt bronze and copper fittings, cast and stamped. Winged pair of dragons, with each other partly by lion masks, partly connected by tendrils with palmettes. On the edges tendrils in generous leadership. It lacks the fillings of the five panels of the top, which consisted of thin silver sheet; they probably showed flat loose braid patterns. In the tendrils some Gothic patchwork. The smooth round bars on the edges are also completed (the original moldings are beaded).
Provenance
allegedly from Charterhouse Seitz an der Sann (Zicka kartuzija, Slovenia); no later than 1932 unknown private property; 1932-1934 whereabouts unknown; 29.8.-1.9.1934 Auction Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, Lot-No. 899; 1936 Fischer, Lucerne to GNM
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Contact
Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Nürnberg
Kornmarkt 1
90402 Nürnberg
Germany
Postfach 11 95 80
90105 Nürnberg
Germany
Phone
(0911) 13310
Fax
(0911) 1331200
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