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A small chest

Lot 120
26.06.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerKunstauktionshaus Neumeister
Event locationGermany, München
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ID 1237496
Lot 120 | A small chest
Estimate value
€ 10 000 – 12 000
Veneto, 15th century
Cypress wood (?). Restored, damaged. 39 x 55 x 28 cm.

additional: copy of a letter from Heinrich Kolhaussen/Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (undated) to Dr. Figdor. Kohlhaussen was a museum assistant there between 1922 and 1933

Damage to old iron lock. Inscribed "N 642" on the underside of the cover, "F. 3410" and "11982/72914/Hes". Label "F. 3410" verso.

Literature: Bode, Wilhelm von, Die italienischen Hausmöbel der Renaissance. Monographien des Kunstgewerbes volume 6. Leipzig 1902, page 55 illustration 73 - Stegmann, H., Die Holzmöbel der Sammlung Figdor Wien (I), in: Kunst und Kunsthandwerk 10th volume 1907, pages 121-170, here: page 134 with illustration 14 - Behncke, W./Dreger, M./Falke, O. von among others (editor), Illustrierte Geschichte des Kunstgewerbes volume 1. Berlin 1907, page 403 with illustration 319 - Schmidt, Robert, Möbel. Ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. Berlin 2nd edition 1916, page 69 illustration 60 - Schottmüller, Frieda, Wohnungskultur und Möbel der italienischen Renaissance. Stuttgart 1928, page 48 illustration 99 - Feulner, Adolph, Kunstgeschichte des Möbels. Berlin 1927, page 77 illustration 70 - Schmitz, H., Das Möbelwerk. Berlin 1929, page 78.



Provenance: before 1902 Julius Böhler, Munich - Figdor Collection number 3410 - Auction "Sammlung Dr. Albert Figdor Wien" (11-13 June 1930 Vienna), lot 642 - there bought back via a third party commissioned by the heiress, owned by the family since then.
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