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Mortar with lid
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Further categories / Further kinds of objects
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ÖMV/44076
Description
Mortar for poppy seed or linseed, produced from a single piece of trunk, gently conical shape, base and band in the upper third raised with profiled edges. The base and walled area each contain a turning rill at the top and in the middle respectively. Yellow-brownish paintwork, base and upper part also with irregular red paintwork, the profiled edges are dark grey. The walls are painted with the year “18 + 76:” in red and the initials “J:D”, presumably once white, today grey; below them two stylized blossoms. The lid with the button handle is missing. From the Alpine region. 1876.
Height
67 cm
Width
17.6 cm
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
unknown
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Board of the Society for Folk Life and Folk Art
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