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Statuette
Ramma Tennin
Lost Art-ID
622992
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Japanese)
Title
Statuette
Additional title
Ramma Tennin
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
61.00 cm
Length
168.00 cm
Description
In a black lacquer frame with gilded bronze fittings, Tennin floats between clouds; playing flute (flute lost); diadem; wings; upper body uncovered except for belt, lower body covered.
Provenance
Acquired in 1908 by Herbert Ginsberg in Kyoto, Japan; 1908 - at least end of 1929 Ostasiatica-Collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; after 1945 no longer in the possession of Herbert Ginsberg; circumstances of loss unknown - a loss as a result of Nazi persecution cannot be ruled out. Whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, Abschnitt: Skulpturen aus Holz - Stein - Ton, Nr. 10.
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