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Floor clock, elephant

Lost Art-ID
573947
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Augsburg, Deutschland (wohl))
Title
Floor clock, elephant
Place of manufacture
Augsburg (wohl)
Dating
1600 (um)
Object type
Watch, clock
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Material / Technique
Metal (Bronze) ; Metal (Silver) ; Wood (Ebony)
Height
36.00 cm
Width
21.00 cm
Depth
15.00 cm
Description
On an elongate octogonal pedastal made of ebony with fittings of partly gilt silver-ornaments stands an elephant made of gilt bronze, lead on by a boy, while another boy sits on its neck propeling the elephant. On back of the elephant a plenty decorated shabrack, a tower on it, on both sides dials, at the edges free moulded ornaments. Above, inside of an octogonal superstructure a bell. More on top a circle of merlon, where four Janissaries are surrounding a tower. Inside the pedastal a clockwork. The clockwork is moving the Janissaries and the eyes of the elephant. The ornaments of the shabrack and the dials made of silver, least one with enamel, the rest - also the bottom covered with plants ist made of gilt bronze
Provenance
collection Maximilian Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt/M.; Frankfurt am Main (purchase contract of 11.11.1938), Museum für Kunsthandwerk, inventory number G.R.1353; Müller-Ruzika (barter 1943)); [...]; collection von Lemmers-Danforth, Wetzlar
Status
restituted
Literature / Source
Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main; Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Sign. 46
Published since
10.01.2018
Contact
Dr. Sabine Rudolph
Position
Rechtsanwältin
Phone
+49 (0)351 / 448 333-0
E-Mail
s.rudolph@steinmeier.eu
Circumstances of loss reported as
Nazi-confiscated property
Search Request, Person

Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Maximilian Freiherr von

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