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Armorial Dish with Hercules slaying Cerberus
Lost Art-ID
311233
Artist / Creator
Fontana, Guido
Birth
(um) 1490, Casteldurante
Death
(nach) 1576.10.16
Place of activity
Urbino
Title
Armorial Dish with Hercules slaying Cerberus
Dating
1535
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
29.84 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 283
Description
A DOCUMENTARY URBINO ARMORIAL DISH, by Guido Durantino, painted in brilliant enamel colours with Hercules slaying Cerberus and with the arms of Montmorency, trees and burning buildings in the background, the reverse inscribed " Her cole occise caccho et il cane Cerboro " and below in the same script "In botega di Mo Guido Durantino in Urbino, 1535 "
Provenance
Munich, loss 1938;
The collection (approx. 440 works) was confiscated by the SS in Munich in 1938 on the occasion of the ‘Reichskristallnacht’ and auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1939 (7/8 June and 19/20 July).
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Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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