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Tabletop
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Arts and crafts / Further kinds of arts and crafts
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
H.I. 28.987 / H 1759
Description
Tabletop precisely rectangular. Rich and fine marquetry, depicting a vase of antique shape with a bunch of flowers, to left and right two crouching satyrs with goat's feet, as well as two large acanthus tendrils; lions below; dragons above as well as birds. Broad rim, with compartments within, shaped like rectangles with circular end. Base of top: Limewood. Marquetry - base: ebony, with inlays in mahogany, maple, nutwood, burr walnut, poplar, and pear wood as well as bone and mother-of-pearl. The marquetry hand-coloured and hand-cut. Table support not extant.
Material
Wood
Width
169 cm
Period
18th Century
Provenance Data
Assignment/presentation from the public sector 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
Assignment of the 'Reichsstatthalterei' (i.e. the office of the head of the Nazi government of Austria), 'Abteilung 3' (division 3), inventorised 28 September 1939.
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 Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
The table support, apparently extant at time of inventorisation, no longer to be found.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism