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Chandelier from Elbing

Lost Art-ID
567974
Artist / Creator
Unknown
Title
Chandelier from Elbing
Dating
1655 (um)
Object type
Light / lamp
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Material / Technique
Metal (Copper alloys) / cast
Height
90.00 cm
Diameter
85.00 cm
Inventory number
V 229
Description
It is a chandelier with double eagle and two eight arms in two rows. Between the upper arms are seacreature (two seacreatures are missing today), between the lower arms volutes. On the ball is an inscription. According to this, the chandelier is a foundation of the Elbingen city doctor Friedrich Goldnau, who founded this church in Elbing in 1655.
Provenance

The candlelier was handed over to the Landesmuseum Bonn by the Gestapo Dienststelle Bonn, Kreuzbergweg 5, in December 1938, by its Chief Inspectorate, Settels. According to a file note from

22.12.1938 the chandelier comes from an unspecified confiscation.

Literature / Source
Archiv des Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland: ALVR 22789
Published since
Contact
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Valk
Direktor
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