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Dish on Foot with Gryphon and Soldiery
Lost Art-ID
311131
Artist
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Birth
1486/1487?, Rovigo (?)
Death
1542?
Place of activity
Urbino, Faenza (?)
First mentioned
1520/1525
Title
Dish on Foot with Gryphon and Soldiery
Datierung
1537 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
26.92 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 181
Description
AN URBINO DISH ON FOOT, by Fra. Xanto Avelli, brilliantly painted with Gryphon fighting the soldiery of Damascus on a bridge with a castle in the background, the figures in bright orange, yellow, blue and green, the reverse inscribed in black "Solo Gripho cotra Damasco tutto" and in red with the initials and date F.X.R. 1537, circa 1537
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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