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drinking vessel in shape of a swan
Lost Art-ID
573942
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Torgau (wohl))
Title
drinking vessel in shape of a swan
Place of manufacture
Torgau (wohl)
Dating
1501/1700
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Silver) / gilded
Measures
D: 6,6-8 (Sockel)
Height
18.50 cm
Weight
305.00 g
Inventory number
G.R.680
Description
An oval shaped, plump body. Attached on it a rural embossed metal sheet forming the wide opened wings. Keenly turned neck with hugh head removeable. The feet resting on an oval pedastal, that is depicting a cambared meadow floor, with a flat, slightly moulded edge. In front a white-silvern lizsard. Weight: 305 g, Mark: At edge of pedastal incomplete and faint stamps: Sign of town with T (maybe Torgau), R.4670, masters sign EL maybe R.4678, Eberhard Lindemann, dates unknown, third completely faint stamp
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.680; Chominski (exchange march 1943); 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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