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drinking vessel in shape of a bear
Lost Art-ID
573939
Artist / Creator
Umbach, Leonhard (wohl)
Birth
Augsburg
Death
1593 (nach)
First mentioned
1579
Last mentioned
Augsburg
Title
drinking vessel in shape of a bear
Place of manufacture
Augsburg
Dating
1580 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Silver) / gilded
Height
12.00 cm
Weight
233.00 g
Inventory number
G.R.508
Description
A bear sitting on his hind legs is playing the bag pipe. Around his body an engraved chaineine gravierte Kette, that is joined by a real chain with the moulded collar. Head removeable. Weight: 233 g, Mark: At seat, Sign of town Augsburg R.125 (1576 - 1583), master sign house mark R.400 maybe Leonhard Umbach (marriage 1579, died 1614). Auction Bourgeois, Cologne, 1914, Nr.513
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.508; Müller-Ruzika (barter february 1942 together with G.R.1334); 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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