Table ornament

BK-17040-A

• maker's mark
• town mark: ‘N’

J. van Bennekom, Q. Lemasson, L. Pichon, B. Moignard and A. Pappot, ‘The Merkel centrepiece by Wenzel Jamnitzer: proving the existence of a previously unknown inscription using the Aglae pixe mapping system’ in Art Matters, International Journal for Technical Art History 6 (2014), 1-10. http://artmattersjournal.org/images/past_issues/volume_6/01-AM-Bennekom-v2.pdf , 8 maart 2016.

maker: Wenzel Jamnitzer, Neurenberg

1549

height 99.8 cm x diameter 46.0 cm

Public domain

…; from the Duke of Hamilton, possibly for 800,000 RM, to Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820-1886), Frankfurt, 1880;{Note RMA; Glanville 2003-2004, p. 37.} his daughter, Thèrese, Baroness James de Rothschild (1847-1931), Frankfurt and Paris, 1912, 1928;{Jones 1912, Pl. I , Introduction; Jones, 1928, p.180, Pl. L, no. 1.} her son Henri de Rothschild;{Weltkunst 1937, p. 42.} from whom to a consortium of dealers for Fritz Mannheimer(1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris;{Weltkunst 1937, p. 42.} from whose estate purchased, 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 xx 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.

• J. van Bennekom, Q. Lemasson, L. Pichon, B. Moignard and A. Pappot, ‘The Merkel centrepiece by Wenzel Jamnitzer: proving the existence of a previously unknown inscription using the Aglae pixe mapping system’ in Art Matters, International Journal for Technical Art History 6 (2014), 1-10. http://artmattersjournal.org/images/past_issues/volume_6/01-AM-Bennekom-v2.pdf , 8 maart 2016.
• Klaus Pechstein, 'Zur Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst der Renaissance', in: cat. tent. Nürnberg 1985, p. 25-36.
• Dora Thornton, 'From Waddesdon to the British Museum. Baron Ferdinand Rothschild and his cabinet collection' in: Journal of the History of Collections, Bd. 13, dl. 2, 2001, p. 191-213.
• Fieke Tissink, 'Uitgelijnd : Tafelstuk', Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 27 (2001) nr. 4, p. 10-11.
• Hermann Schadt, Goldschmiedekusnt. 5000 Jahre Schmuck und Gerät, Stuttgart 1996, p. 112.
• Ernst Kris, Le Style rustique. Le moulage d’après nature chez Wenzel Jamnitzer et Bernard Palissy, Patricia Falguières éd., Paris, 2005.
• Ernst Kris, '"Der Stil ‘Rustique"’. Die Verwendung des Naturabgusses bei Wenzel Jamnitzer und Bernard Palissy', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, Neue Folge, I (1926), p. 137-208.

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