Godmother bowl

Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified

Categories: Arts and crafts / Vessels

Object Data

 

Artist

Museum

Inventory Number

ÖMV/45226

Description

Bowl, so called godmother bowl, with smooth rounded edge, opposing horizontal handles in the shape of cherub’s heads. Faience, majolica, painted with high-fire glaze, hollow contains a portrayal of St. Veronica with the veil, Gmunden, Upper Austria. 

Height

5 cm

Width

13.2 cm

Period

1st half of the 19th Century

Provenance Data

 

Former owner according to museum / collection

unknown

Provenance

Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45

Provenance according to museum / collection

Purchase from Dorotheum, May 1941.

Committee in charge

Board of the Society for Folk Life and Folk Art

Decision

No decision has been reached so far.

Implementation

The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.

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