Ornamental shield made from an elk’s antler, anonymous, c. 1000 - c. 1199

? Part of the funerary chapel of Emperor Louis the Pious (778-840), Metz; …; collection Philippe-Antoine Paguet (1768-1854), Metz; his nephew, Victor Colchen; his sale, Paris (Drouot), 8 and 9 February 1867, no. 2, frs 8,550, to the dealer Henri Delange, Paris; ? from whom purchased by Prince Alexander Petrovich Basilevsky (1829-85), Paris; from whom, frs 5,500,000, with the rest of his collection en bloc, to Tsar Alexander III of Russia, 1884;{Provenance 840-1884 reconstructed by De Hond/Scholten 2013, pp. 372-3.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 166, no. P.50} purchased from his estate, 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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