Dove, anonymous, c. 1225 - c. 1250

...; from Prince Alexander Petrovich Basilevsky (1829-85), Paris, en bloc, frs 5,500,000, to Tsar Alexander III of Russia, for the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 1884;{Kryzanovskaya 1990, p. 152.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 97, no. E.7.} purchased from his estate, 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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