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Dish on Foot with Gryphon and Soldiery
Lost Art-ID
311131
Artist / Creator
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Birth
1486/1487?, Rovigo (?)
Death
1542?
Place of activity
Urbino, Faenza (?)
First mentioned
1520/1525
Last mentioned
1542
Title
Dish on Foot with Gryphon and Soldiery
Dating
1537 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
26.92 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 181
Description
AN URBINO DISH ON FOOT, by Fra. Xanto Avelli, brilliantly painted with Gryphon fighting the soldiery of Damascus on a bridge with a castle in the background, the figures in bright orange, yellow, blue and green, the reverse inscribed in black "Solo Gripho cotra Damasco tutto" and in red with the initials and date F.X.R. 1537, circa 1537
Provenance
Munich, loss 1938;
The collection (approx. 440 works) was confiscated by the SS in Munich in 1938 on the occasion of the ‘Reichskristallnacht’ and auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1939 (7/8 June and 19/20 July).
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Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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