Candlestick: knight with dragon, anonymous, c. 1200 - c. 1250

Inv.;…; collection John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York;{Note RMA.}…; from the dealer Duveen, New York, $3,500, to Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1926;{GRI, Digital Collections, Duveen Brothers records, Series I. Business Records. Series I.D. General Business Records, Duveen Bros. New York Sales lists 1922-28, image 46, Sales list - New York - December 14, 1926.} from whom, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 85, no. Br 3, Artistic no. 12/51; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, ‘‘O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939’’, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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