Search Request | Holding
Leather cases
Lost Art-ID
631721
Name
Leather cases
Description
Approximately 250 objects. Identification: Usually under the base, there is a label with a short description of the corresponding artwork, sometimes also gold-stamped numbers, for example: ‘CAB.No.60’.
Literature: Erna von Watzdorf, Kostbare Lederhüllen für Silber, Gold und Kristall (Precious leather cases for silver, gold, and crystal), Dresdner Nachrichten, October 25, 1931.
History
History of loss: Taken over by Soviet Lieutenant Rabinowitsch in 1945 along with the works from the Green Vault and brought to Moscow. (620 leather cases were taken over. 368 cases returned with the artworks in the 1950s.) There they ended up in the Ministry of Finance.
Contact
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Grünes Gewölbe
Taschenberg 2
01067 Dresden
Germany
Phone
(0351) 4914 8591
E-Mail
Homepage
Contact
Permalink to this page