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Spice container
with lid (belongs to MARKK 61.31:8)
Lost Art-ID
617173
Title
Spice container
Additional title
with lid (belongs to MARKK 61.31:8)
Dating
1902
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Silver) / cast ; repoussé
Height
7.50 cm
Diameter
3.00 cm
Weight
36.00 g
Inventory number
MARKK 61.31:7
Description
Four stamps on the side of the neck: "E∙S∙B" = E S Barnsley & Co (mould from 1894), anchor (hallmark) + walking lion (sterling fineness) + "c" (year letter) = Birmingham 1902. Two stamps on the rim of the bonnet: walking lion (sterling fineness) + c (year letter).
Baluster-shaped with round foot and stepped neck. Curved wave pattern on the lower belly. High, narrow bonnet with spherical lid knob and openwork stripe pattern.
Schellenberg no. 5721 a (registration by Carl Schellenberg after 1945)
Provenance
1902 E S Barnsley & Co (Edward Souter Barnsley), Birmingham/UK; [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
Literature / Source
MARKK Objekt- und Sammlungsdokumentation
Published since
Contact
MUSEUM AM ROTHENBAUM (MARKK)
Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Rothenbaumchaussee 64
20148 Hamburg
Germany
Homepage
Contact
JANA C. REIMER
Position
Kuratorin West- und Zentralasien, Nordafrika und Altägypten / Provenienzforschung NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogenes Kulturgut
Phone
+4940428879–551
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