Nautilus cup

Nautilus cup

BK-17009

Nautilusbeker met verguld zilveren montuur, in de vorm van een kraanvogel. De vogel staat op één poot en omklemt een blank zilveren bol in de andere. Langs de mondrand van de schelp gegraveerde jachtvoorstellingen. De voet bestaat uit zes straalsgewijs geplaatste draken.

silversmith: anonymous, Southern Germany

c. 1550 - c. 1600

height 30.5 cm x width 9.3 cm x depth 7.9 cm

Public domain

…; collection Hannah Mathilde Freifrau von Rothschild (1832-1924), Grüneburg, Frankfurt am Main;{Note RMA; Von Falke 1936, p. 200, no Si. 22.} …; from Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 46, no. Zil 21, Artistic no. 17/69; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, “O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939”, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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