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Eight corner mascarons of a pair of ornamental mirrors (mantelpiece mirror as well as pier mirror)

Lost Art-ID
628749
First antechamber 1935, SLUB Dresden, photo library, negative number: df_hauptkatalog_0053710; Image: Walter Möbius
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Parisian court workshops)
Title
Eight corner mascarons of a pair of ornamental mirrors (mantelpiece mirror as well as pier mirror)
Dating
1719 (before)
Object type
Crafts and other folk arts
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Material / Technique
Metal (Brass) / fire-gilded
Height
47.00 cm
Width
48.00 cm
Description

Two large mirrors with blue glass frames, on which numerous ornaments are painted in gold, framed with gilded brasses, together with a similar top on which there is a canopy and festoons.

Fire-gilded chiselled brass fittings. 2 large Venetian mirrors in glass bronze frames.

Dimensions refer to the single corner mascaron: (H) 40 x (W) 40 cm

Provenance
1719 until the war-related removal in 1942 furnishing of the Royal State Apartments (also 1st coffee room 504); in accordance with the 1924 settlement agreement, the mirrors were transferred to the Free State of Saxony; in 1944 mirrors and mirror parts and wall mirrors were removed from the Dresden Castle to a relocation site (Rammenau or Schleinitz Castle); Circumstances of loss unknown. A loss in connection with the events of the Second World War is assumed.
Literature / Source

Inventare von 1769 und 1852.

Inventarverzeichnis Nr. 1 vom 31.01.1920 („Schloß und Palais am Taschenberg zu Dresden sowie Palais Parkstraße 7“), als Bestandteil des Auseinandersetzungsvertrages 1924 (Freistaat Sachsen, Haus Wettin).

Bergungsliste von Kunstgegenständen mit besonderem Wert, angefertigt durch den Leiter des

Schlossrentamtes, dem Amtmann Hugo Bahr, und den Schlossverwalter Johannes Bibrach vom 06.05.1942.

Published since
Contact
Prof. Dr. Dirk Jäschke
Referatsleiter
Phone
0351/ 564 444200
E-Mail
Dirk.Jaeschke@smf.sachsen.de
Contact
Tobias Seefeld
Referent
Phone
0351/ 564 444210
E-Mail
Tobias.Seefeld@smf.sachsen.de
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