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Dagger in carved ivory-case
Lost Art-ID
616642
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Japanese)
Title
Dagger in carved ivory-case
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Steel) ; Wood ; Ivory / forged ; carved
Description
currently no further information available
Provenance
Baron Bertalan Hatvany, Budapest; Lost during WWII; whereabouts unknown
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Literature / Source
List of Art Treasures Removed by Germans from Hungary and not been returned by March, 1948. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 51, No. 15; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War: Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents: Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, p. 222, No. 16642
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