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Plate mit King Candaules displaying his wife to Gyges
Lost Art-ID
311029
Artist
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Birth
1486/1487?, Rovigo (?)
Death
1542?
Place of activity
Urbino, Faenza (?)
First mentioned
1520/1525
Title
Plate mit King Candaules displaying his wife to Gyges
Datierung
1537
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
26.00 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 81
Description
A BRILLIANTLY PAINTED URBINO PLATE, by Fra Xanto Avelli, decorated with the subject of King Candaules displaying his wife to Gyges, one of his ministers, in the centre Cupid and a broken column, another putto in the clouds above and a castle in the distance through a broken brick wall, the reverse inscribed in black " 1537 Nostra Candauli Re sua Donna a Gigio, F.X.R. "
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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