Bird

Bird

BK-17108

Beeld van bergkristal in de vorm van een vogel. Montuur van goud. Op de rug een ovale opening met scharnierend deksel.

maker: anonymous, Italy

c. 1600

rock crystal, gold, enamel

height 21.2 cm x width 18.5 cm x depth 9.5 cm

Public domain

…; collection Eugen Gutmann (1840-1925), Munich, 1912;{Von Falke 1912, p. 28, no. 109, image 24.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 51, no. K.96.} 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

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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