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Samovar

Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred

Categories: Arts and crafts / Further kinds of arts and crafts

Object Data

Artist

Gelder, Berthold

Museum

MAK - Museum of Applied Arts

Inventory Number

H.I. 29.862 / Go 1852

Description

Silver, wrought, cast, engraved, embossed, three feet, Weight: 2235 g, Vienna, 1816 to 1817

Material

Silver

Height

40 cm

Width

16 cm

Period

1st half of the 19th Century

Provenance Data

Former owner according to museum / collection

Schütz, Hermine

Provenance

Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45

Provenance according to museum / collection

February 1942, acquired from the Auction House Dorotheum

Committee

Art Restitution Advisory Board

Pendency

The art restitution case is closed.

Recommendation

The committee in charge has recommended if possible to restore the art or cultural object, if owners or their legal successors can be established.

Committee in charge

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport

Decision

The body in charge has decided to restore the art or cultural object to the owners or their legal successors.

Implementation

The art or cultural object was restituted to the owners or their legal successors.

Annotations

In its meeting of March 7, 2008 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture that the mentioned Samovar from the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna be handed over to the legal successors of Hermine Schütz. The aforementioned object is listed in the enclosed file and designated with 'Collection Hermine Schütz.The Samovar was handed over to the heirs on July 21, 2010.

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