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Oval box

Lost Art-ID

573948

Artist

Unbekannt (Deutschland (wohl))

Title

Oval box

Place of manufacture

Deutschland (wohl)

Datierung

1775/1800

Object type

Vessel

Group of reported objects

Crafts and other folk arts

Material / Technique

gold, agate, enamel

Height

6.20 cm

Width

3.70 cm

Inventory number

G.R.326

Description

In shape of a hens egg, across departed, foldable cover. Formed by alternating panels of brown-grey striped agate and gold with ornaments made of white and green enamel. Hinge and rims made of gold with rocaille-ornaments. Mark: At rim of cover twice a stamp of owls R.6615 (import sign, France since 1893)

Provenance

collection Maximilian Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt/M.; city Frankfurt am Main (purchase contract of 11.11.1938), Museum für Kunsthandwerk, inventory number G.R.326; Henrich (exchange august 1943 together with G.R.387); whereabouts unknown

Verlustgeschichte

Frankfurt (Main), 1938

Verkauf der Kunstsammlung 1938 an die Stadt Frankfurt/M., Abgabe z.T. als Tausch an das Museum für Kunsthandwerk bzw. die Städtische Galerie Frankfurt/M.

Literature / Source

Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main; Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Sign. 46

Published since

10.01.2018

Contact

Dr. Sabine Rudolph

Phone

+49 (0) 351 317 22 0

rudolph@heimann-dresden.de