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Epee, sword

Lost Art-ID

584949

Artist / Creator

Furmicano, Pietro

Place of activity

Padua, Belluno

First mentioned

1600 (um)

Title

Epee, sword

Dating

1570 (um)

Object type

Weapon

Group of reported objects

Militaria

Material / Technique

Metal (Steel) ; Metal (Iron)

Measures

derzeit keine Angaben vorliegend | currently no information

Inventory number

ZG 3292 / 3

Description

Unknown [The two swords of Formicano c. 1565 and 1580 respectively in the Kunsthistorische Museum of Vienna, court hunting and armoury, inv. no. A 573 and A 1109 shall be "of the same kind", i.e. similar].

Provenance

[…] Duke Heinrich the Younger of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1489-1568); [...]; [...] - 1771 Duke Carl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1713-1780); 1771 - 1933 "Alt-Schottische Loge zu den neun Sternen" (united in 1797 with the lodge "Zur gekrönten Säule", the new lodge bears the name "Carl zur gekrönten Säule" since 1802); 1933 - [...] Part of a loan collection of the loge "Carl zur gekrönten Säule" to the Vaterländische Museum Brunswick (today: Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum); Loss (seizure by the Gestapo between 1933 and 1945?); In 2019 the collection was transferred to the ownership of the Landesmuseum of Brunswick by a mutual agreement between the lodge and the museum; [...] ; whereabouts unknown.

Published since

19.12.2019