Jug in the shape of a war elephant, Wolff Christof Ritter, c. 1615

…; sale, Baron Carl Mayer de Rothschild (1820-1886, Frankfurt), Paris (Galerie Georges Petit), 12 June 1911, no 53; his daugther, Emma Louise von Rothschild (1844-1935), Frankfurt and London, 1928;{Jones, 1912, Introduction; Jones 1928, p. 204.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 199, no. Si.20.} 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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