Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Important Medieval Works of Art From the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen
Byzantine, 8th-10th century
Incense Burner with a Lion
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July 3, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Important Medieval Works of Art From the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen
Byzantine, 8th-10th century
Incense Burner with a Lion
inscribed: M20 in red ink, and with three old labels to the underside inscribed respectively: OSCAR BONDY / WIEN / No 847, CL.68.45.2 / Blumka and: 58
bronze
17cm., 6¾in.
Dr Albert Figdor (1843–1927), Vienna;
His posthumous sale, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1930, Part I, no. 5, no. 444;
Oscar Bondy (1870-1944), Vienna;
From whom confiscated by Nazi-authorities in 1939;
By whom transferred to the ‘Sonderauftrag Linz’, 1938-1945;
Munich Central Collecting Point (Mu-number 1445/27), 1945;
From where repatriated to Austria and restituted to Elisabeth Bondy in 1948;
Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York;
With Blumka Gallery, New York, 1996;
From whom acquired by Dr Ernst Boehlen, Bern
O. von Falke, 'Aus der Sammlung Figdor, I, Kunstgewerbe', in Pantheon, vol. IV, 1929, p. 331, fig. 12;
O. von Falke, Die Sammlung Dr Albert Figdor, Wien, Berlin and Vienna, 1930, Part I, no. 5, no. 444 and pl. CLXII;
C. Gomez-Moreno, Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at the Cloisters, exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1968, no. 86
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Cloisters), Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at the Cloisters, 1968
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