Commissioned by Carlo di Nicola di Messer Vieri de'Medici, Florence, 1468;{Gaye 1839, I, pp. 569-570; Valentiner 1933, p. 228.} Palazzo Vecchio (Sala dell’Udienza), Florence, in or after 1469;{Gaye 1839, I, p. 575; Valentiner 1933, p. 228.} …; collection Bartholdi, Rome, before 1825; Royal Kunstkammer der Hohenzollern, later the Schlossmuseum, Berlin, in or before 1825;{Coll. cat. Berlin 1825, no. ?; Valentiner 1933, p. 228; inventory number K.4327 on the lower edge of the baluster.} Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, 1875; sold to the dealer N.V. Internationale Antiquiteitenhandel Amsterdam in order to purchase the Welfenschatz, 1935;{Leeuwenberg 1973, pp. 374-5, no. 629; Restitution request "Guelph Treasure" (Welfenschatz), 30.11.2010, p. 19.}…; collection Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris; purchased from his estate by the Dienststelle Mühlmann as ‘Sichergestelltes Kunstwerk’ intended for the planned Führermuseum in Linz, stored in Hohenfurt Monastery, Bohemia, 1940;{Shipping list collection Mannheimer, crate no. K. 68, no. Br. 36; Kieslinger 1941, p. 95.} war recuperation, SNK, 1946;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Verslagen 1953, p. 19.} transferred to the museum, 1960
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