Aquamanile in the form of a lion

Aquamanile in the form of a lion

BK-16912

Catalogue des objects d'art et de haute curiosité composant la magnifique collection de monsieur Johannes Paul à Hambourg, Lempertz (Keulen), 1882-10-16, cat.nr. 875

brazier: Meester Bernhuser, Koningsbergen

c. 1375 - c. 1400

• height 34.5 cm x width 33.5 cm x depth 14.5 cm
• width 31.0 cm x depth 14.5 cm

Public domain

Inv.;...; from Prince Alexander Petrovich Basilevsky (1829-85), Paris, en bloc, frs 5,500,000, to Tsar Alexander III of Russia, for the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 1884;{Kryzanovskaya 1990, p. 152.} …; private collection, Amsterdam, 1935;{Von Falke/Meyer 1935, p. 114, no. 498, image 454.} collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 114, no. B.10.} 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.

• Catalogue des objects d'art et de haute curiosité composant la magnifique collection de monsieur Johannes Paul à Hambourg, Lempertz (Keulen), 1882-10-16, cat.nr. 875
• De Nederlandse Rijksmusea, 1982, p. 24.
• Ekaterina Nekrasova-Shedrinksy, Il destino delle opere della collezione Basilewsky, in: 'L'Ermitage di Basilewsky. Il collezionista di meraviglie', Torino 2013, pp. 32-41, p. 36-37, afb. p. 36.

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