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box

Lost Art-ID

573959

Artist / Creator

Unknown (Paris, Frankreich)

Title

box

Place of manufacture

Paris

Dating

1770 (um)

Object type

Vessel

Group of reported objects

Crafts and other folk arts

Material / Technique

Metal (Gold) ; Enamel

Height

3.30 cm

Width

7.00 cm

Depth

3.80 cm

Weight

87.00 g

Inventory number

G.R.940

Description

Elongately oval, foldable cover. Surfaces with plenty of engraved ornaments (scrolls, ribbons, rocailles, leaves) and partly covered with transparent green enamel. Inside smooth gold. Weight: 87 g. mark: Inside of cover and at bottom two faint stamps, at rim a crab-sign twice times in an oval (R.5906)

Provenance

collection Maximilian Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt/M.; city Frankfurt am Main (purchase contract of 11.11.1938), Museum für Kunsthandwerk, inventory number G.R.940; Kalebdjian, Paris (barter october 1943 together with G.R.394, G.R.404, G.R.430); whereabouts unknown

Literature / Source

Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main; Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Sign. 46

Published since

10.01.2018

Contact

Dr. Sabine Rudolph

Phone

+49 (0)351 / 448 333-0

E-Mail

s.rudolph@steinmeier.eu