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writing equipment for travelling
Lost Art-ID
573952
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Paris, Frankreich)
Title
writing equipment for travelling
Place of manufacture
Paris
Dating
1780 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Gold) ; Enamel
Height
3.60 cm
Width
3.30 cm
Depth
4.60 cm
Weight
119.00 g
Inventory number
G.R.403
Description
Nearly rectangular with chamfered side walls, foldable cover. Made of gold, engraved outside, covered with coloured enamel: roses, scrolls, pansies and other flowers. Smooth gold inside. At lower part a quatrefoil-shaped inkwell with screw cap next to a pen tray with golden quill pen and pencil in four parts. Weight: 119 g, Mark: At bottom of the ink well: Jb. faint, probably M crowned, Paris, 1775 - 1776?, R.6432, Pz. R.6537, H. Clavel 1780 - 1786 (at rim)
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.403; Chominski (exchange september 1943 together with G.R. 422, G.R. 501); whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main; Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Sign. 46
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