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Iron votive: sheep
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Further categories / Further kinds of objects
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ÖMV/45742
Description
Votive offering forged from an iron band in the shape of a sheep with a flatly forged tail and iron bands have been forged into legs and ears, and inserted through eyelets. Upper Austria, 19 century [?].
Height
10.5 cm
Width
15.2 cm
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Unknown
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
Acquired at auction, lot no. 460
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