Flower vase (cuvette Mahon), Manufacture de Sèvres, c. 1761

…; sale, the Rt. Hon. Lord Brownlow (Belton House, Grantham), London (Christie’s), 14 March 1929, no. 58, £220 10 s, to the dealer Duveen;{Copy RMA.} from whom, $12,500, to Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1929;{GRI, Digital Collections, Duveen Brothers records, Series II.I, Collectors’ files: Mannheimer, F., ca. 1924-1948, image 180, probably an invoice to Dr Fritz Mannheimer, d.d. 9 November 1929, no. 29487 and image 171, a Memorandum of Shipment to Dr Fritz Mannheimer, d.d. 12 December 1929.} 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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