Walking stick handle

Wandelstokknop in de vorm van een liggende sfinx van jaspis en bezet met gouden puntjes en diamant.

BK-17180

Wandelstokknop in de vorm van een liggende sfinx uit jaspis gesneden, bezet met gouden puntjes en diamanten. De bus bij de aanzet voor de stok is van goud met diamant.

• goldsmith: anoniem, Dresden
• goldsmith: anoniem, Berlin

c. 1750

height 12.2 cm x width 10.5 cm x depth 5.3 cm x depth 4.5 cm

Public domain

...; collection Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-61), Petersburg;{Note RMA.} …; collection Hermitage, Petersburg, 1902;{Note RMA; Les Trésors d´Art en Russie 1902, plate 134.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 85, no. K. 192.} 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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