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Birdcage
Lost Art-ID
599063
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Französisch)
Title
Birdcage
Dating
1780/1800 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Ceramics (Porcelain) / gilded
Height
50.00 cm
Width
30.00 cm
Inventory number
235 (Cassirer)
Description
Octagonal. With flattened corners. Gilded latticework and corner bars ending in vases emerging from foliage. Below on the four fields of the box oval porcelain medallions with painted mythological depictions; At the flattened corners small painted porcelain busts of ancient deities. With four gilded bird claws, each holding a ball, as feet. On the underside a clock (marked A. R.). In the cage two artificial birds movable by the clockwork.
Provenance
Ralph von Klemperer Collection, Dresden - 1928 -; whereabouts unknown; seizure due to Nazi persecution cannot be ruled out.
Literature / Source
Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky: [Versteigerung: Donnerstag, den 10. Mai, Freitag, den 11. Mai 1928]. Berlin 1928. Lot 235.
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