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Ivory lid box

Lost Art-ID
634241
Title
Ivory lid box
Dating
1675/1700
Object type
Container
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Material / Technique
Ivory ; Metal (Silver) / gold-plated
Height
16.00 cm
Inventory number
Me 16
Description

The lid box is set in embossed and gilded silver. In the foreground, angel figures can be seen carrying a garland of fruit. Behind them are trees and tendrils of grapevines.

Attributed to goldsmith Johann Eißler.

Provenance
16 December 1953 Purchase of the Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt from Munich art auction house Adolph Weinmüller
Literature / Source
Karlheinz Wiegmann und Eva Uebe, Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt. Ein Museumsführer (Mönchengladbach 2015), S. 67f. / Eva Brües, Die zweiten Zehn - Neuerwerbungen 1979-1989 (Mönchengladbach 1989), S. 66.; Rheydter Jahrbuch für Geschichte. Kunst und Heimatkunde, Otto von Bylandt-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), Bd. 11 (Mönchengladbach 1975) S. 97 ff.
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