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Physharmonika (a harmonium-like instrument)
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Musical instruments
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente 545
Description
Vienna, c. 1840, body made of cherry wood shaped like a Biedermeier secretary bureau, at the front four columns, top part with lid on three sides, embellished with arcades, ajour, lacquered in black and lined with green fabric, a free red register with wooden resonators, from F1 to a3
Material
Wood
Width
115 cm
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
December 20, 1941 acquired at an auction at the Dorotheum, Main Office (title: 'Unterhaltung und Vermehrung der Sammlungen' - Conservation and Enlargement of the Collections)
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.
No recommendation has been issued yet.
Federal Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism