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ENAMELLED TRIANGULAR SALT CELLAR

Lost Art-ID
311038
Artist / Creator
Fontana, Guido (?)
Birth
(um) 1490, Casteldurante
Death
(nach) 1576.10.16
Place of activity
Urbino
Title
ENAMELLED TRIANGULAR SALT CELLAR
Dating
1530 (um)
Object type
Container
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Height
7.62 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 90
Description
A BRILLIANTLY ENAMELLED TRIANGULAR SALT CELLAR, probably by Guido Durantino, supported on three orange paw feet, the corners with green acanthus leaf supports, the sides and top superbly drawn and painted in orange, yellow and green with masks, grotesche motifs and in the corners with the " Strozzi" Arms, the triangular sunk centre with "bianco-sopra-bianco" ornament, Urbino, circa 1530
Provenance

Munich, loss 1938;

The collection (approx. 440 works) was confiscated by the SS in Munich in 1938 on the occasion of the ‘Reichskristallnacht’ and auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1939 (7/8 June and 19/20 July).

Published since
2005
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
Circumstances of loss reported as
Nazi-confiscated property
Search Request, Person

Pringsheim, Alfred

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