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Two candelabras
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Arts and crafts / Lamps
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
H.I. 29.635 / Go 1841 / 1-2
Description
Silver, cast, wrought, engraved, Vienna 1813
Material
Silver
Height
25 cm
Width
12.5 cm
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Gombrich, Erny and Richard
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
February 4, 1942, acquired from the Auction House Dorotheum
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The art restitution case is closed.
The committee in charge has recommended if possible to restore the art or cultural object, if owners or their legal successors can be established.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
The body in charge has decided to restore the art or cultural object to the owners or their legal successors.
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 candelabras from the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna be handed over to the legal successors of Erny and Richard Gombrich. The aforementioned art objects are listed in the enclosed file and designated with 'Collection Erny und Richard Gombrich'.The candelabras were handed over to the heirs on February 26, 2009.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism