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Faience: jug: melon jug
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Arts and crafts / Vessels
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ÖMV/45151
Description
Jug, so-called melon jug, low pot-bellied shape with a broad neck, diagonal ribbing, blue faience glaze on the outer surface, light yellow sprue in the interior. Curved tin lid with a knob on top, handle in the form of a shell, tin mount on the base, probably Hutterite work, Austrian.
Height
21 cm
Width
17 cm
Period
18th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
unknown
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
Purchase from Dorotheum (463rd auction)
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.
Annotations
463rd auction at the Dorotheum. 4th and 5th of February 1941, auction lot 366.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism