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Pearl-Shaped Etui
Lost Art-ID
616663
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Chinese (Ch'ien lung Dynasty))
Title
Pearl-Shaped Etui
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Lacquer red / carved
Description
Pearl-Shaped Etui, a Landscape with a Poet and Bats in it
Provenance
Baron Bertalan Hatvany, Budapest; Lost during WWII; whereabouts unknown
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Literature / Source
Keleti Művészeti Kiállítás [Oriental Art Exhibition], Magyar Gyűjtők és Művészetkedvelők Egyesülete [Association of Hungarian Collectors and Art Patrons] Iparművészeti Múzeum [Museum of Applied Arts] Budapest, 1929. No. 620; Bertalan Hatvany levele az elveszett főbb műtárgyainak listájával a Veszélyeztetett Magángyűjtemények Miniszteri Bizottságának [Letter of Bertalan Hatvany with a list of the more important lost works of art to the Ministerial Commission of Endangered Art Collections] July 9, 1947. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XIX-J-13-332-1947, No.91; List of Art Treasures Removed by Germans from Hungary and not been returned by March, 1948. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 51, No. 53 (artist of Peking, the box is heart-shaped); Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, p. 218, No. 16590
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