Spoon holder

Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified

Categories: Further categories / Further kinds of objects

Object Data

 

Artist

Museum

Inventory Number

ÖMV/45246

Description

Spoon holder comprised of two elements. Lower level with carved front board: in the center a heart with “3” for faithfulness surrounded by tendrils and blossoms. Upper level with narrow painted front board: hunter, shooting at three stags from the left, to the right three chamoises on rocky outcrop and painted back wall: left the mountain hut in block construction, to its right four cows and a couple (dairymaid and boy). Back wall at the top with a carved top piece, wooden bobbles hang in five ovals, above them in the center a rectangular mirror, uppermost adornment missing. Figural painting in strong colors before a green background. Salzkammergut, Styria, ca. 1815.

Height

35.5 cm

Width

29.5 cm

Provenance Data

 

Former owner according to museum / collection

unknown

Provenance

Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45

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.

Annotations

466th art auction
17th, 18th, 19th and 20th of June 1941, auction lot 372

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