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Leather bottle
Lost Art-ID
579331
Artist / Creator
Title
Leather bottle
Dating
1475/1515
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Leather / cut
Height
45.00 cm
Width
31.50 cm
Depth
23.00 cm
Inventory number
HG 9191
Description
Canteen made of thick-walled leather, with leather peeling on the front and back. Consisting of a round arched front and a round flattened back, which are offset by a bead against the broad median strip. Thereupon 4 loops for pulling the carrying strap and at the top a high cylindrical spout. All parts sewn together by stitching with thick hemp (?) -cord. As a stand surface two wooden blocks and protruding leather ends, covered with a circulating iron band. Locked by turned wood stopper, which is attached to one of the side loops by a narrow leather strap. In the leather surface several cracks and smaller feeding spots. Traces of color. Sideways, sticker, transversal rectangular, overprint in blue: framed box, inside "F.", behind in black ink "1452." [= Slab sticker Figdor?] On the other side, near the neck, remains of a demolished sticker with imprint in black "[1?] 452" on underside Labeling with white pencil: "F 1452.
Provenance
No later than 1927 Albrecht Figdor, Vienna; No later than 1927 by donation to his niece Margarete Becker-Walz, Heidelberg; 6.12.1928 Consortium (Franz Koenigs, Haarlem / Jacob Goldschmidt, Danat Bank, etc.); Between 1931 and 1935 transfer of the consortium ownership to Dresdner Bank; 1935 Acquisition by the Prussian state government in favor of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; 1./2.6.1937 Auction Julius Böhler, Munich to GNM
Literature / Source
M.H. Freeden: Prunkstücke dt. Weinkultur. Kat. d. Ausst. Würzburg, Mainfränk. Museum 1957 Nr. 7 - H. Kohlhaussen: Gesch. d. dt. Kunsthandwerks. München 1955 S. 271-72, Abb. 232 - Kunstwerke aus d. Besitz d. Staatl. Museen von Berlin. Versteigerungs-Kat. Jul. Böhler, München 1.-2.6.1937 Nr. 390, Taf. 24 - Bildführer GNM 1977 Nr. 190 m. Abb.
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