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Engagement shell
Lost Art-ID
574885
Artist
Bodenburg, Johannes (zugeschrieben)
Birth
1642
Death
1700, Ulm
Title
Engagement shell
Dating
1680 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Silver) / repoussé
Width
13.60 cm
Length
17.70 cm
Inventory number
1935.8037
Description
The small ornamental bowl is made of thinly abossed silver and shows as a high relief in the middle two pigeons with flaming heart, on the edge tendrils and four cherubs heads. The love symbols indicate a gift for an engagement or wedding. There are no indications of the donor or the recipient of the object. Probably it was not a commissioned work, but already in stock at the Goldsmith. However, this also means that it is not necessarily a unique piece and therefore no clear identification of the object can be guaranteed with the one mentioned in the literature.
Description: on the edge of the bowl
a) Master's mark: "IB" (Rosenberg, Vol. 3: No. 4795, also similar to No. 4789)
b) Certification: Ulm (Rosenberg, Vol. 3: No. 4739)
Provenance
Since the resolution of the organization in 1957 the property of the city of Ulm - as a permanent loan in the Museum Ulm.
25.7.1935 Acquisition at Antiquariat Adolf Heppner, Berlin; The purchase was made by the association of the museum friends Ulm, e.V.
Previous owner unknown
Probably exhibited at the Swabian district, industrial, commercial and art historical exhibition in Augsburg 1886.
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