Jug

Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred

Categories: Arts and crafts / Vessels

Object Data

 

Artist

Museum

Inventory Number

H.I. 29.640 / Go 1846

Description

Silver, wrought, cast, base plate and octagonal elongated body, Vienna, 1805

Material

Silver

Height

19.5 cm

Width

9 cm

Period

1st half of the 19th Century

Provenance Data

 

Former owner according to museum / collection

Müller, Elise and Erich

Provenance

Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45

Provenance according to museum / collection

February 4, 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 silver jugs from the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna be handed over to the legal successors of Elise Müller and Dr. Erich Müller. The aforementioned art objects are listed in the enclosed file and designated with “Collection Elise and Dr. Erich Müller”.

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