Pair of candlesticks with gods and the Labours of Hercules

Pair of candlesticks with gods and the Labours of Hercules

BK-17219-A

Kandelaar, versierd met email op koper, deels translucide, en goud. De kandelaar heeft een ronde voet met daarboven een schotelvormig plateau waarop een optocht van putti met een bokkenwagen. Gemerkt.

• maker: circle of Jean Court, Limoges
• maker: Jean Court, Limoges [rejected attribution]

c. 1550 - c. 1600

Public domain

Inv.; …; collection Gustave Samuel James de Rothschild (1829-1911), Paris;{Von Falke, p. 103, no. E. 23a,b.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke, p.103, no. E,23a,b.} 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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