Bord van verguld zilver, met palmetrand. Op het plat het gegraveerde wapen Potemkin.

Bord van verguld zilver, met palmetrand. Op het plat het gegraveerde wapen Potemkin.

BK-17030-A

Empire bord van verguld zilver. Omgeven door een palmetrand. In het plat het gegraveerde wapen van Potemkin.

silversmith: anonymous, Paris

1809 - 1819

diameter 24.5 cm

Public domain

Commissioned by or for Alexandra Countess Branicka - Vasilievna Engelhardt (1754-1838) and Franciszwesky Ksawery Petrovich Branicki (1730-1819), 1819;{Baarsen 2013, pp. 480-7, no. 118.} …; from Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 50, no. Zil 89, Artistic no. 45/1; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, “O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939”, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, 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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