Spice container
Two monograms: above the corpus pattern "SM BM 1855", foot edge "S.L." (in italics) and belly; stamp inside foot: "I G S" and later incised number, partly illegible: "183[??]"
Round foot, eggcup shape, constriction below the rim. Belly area with wavy pattern, flat domed cap with spherical lid knob and openwork flute pattern.
Schellenberg no. 5716 b (registration by Carl Schellenberg after 1945)
1855 Johann Gerhard Struntze, Copenhagen/Danmark; [provenance gap]; before 1939 Jewish property, Hamburg; 1939/40 German Reich, confiscation Hamburg; 1940 City of Hamburg, purchase; [provenance gap]; c. 1945 Hamburg Finance Authority, recollection; n.d. Jewish Trust Corporation, trustee; 1959 City of Hamburg, purchase; 1961 Museum of Ethnology Hamburg (now MARKK Hamburg), transfer
MUSEUM AM ROTHENBAUM (MARKK)
Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Rothenbaumchaussee 64
20148 Hamburg
Germany