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Two dragon heads
Lost Art-ID
616657
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Chinese (Ming Dynasty))
Title
Two dragon heads
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Ceramics [?] ; Ceramics (Porcelain) [?]
Measures
Höhe: ca. 40 - 45 cm
Description
roof-ornament in form a stylised dragon’s head, with aubergine and turquoise glazed (perhaps from the same building)
Provenance
Baron Bertalan Hatvany, Budapest; Lost during WWII; whereabouts unknown
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Literature / Source
Bertalan Hatvany levele az elveszett főbb műtárgyainak listájával a Veszélyeztetett Magángyűjtemények Miniszteri Bizottságának [Letter of Bertalan Hatvany with a list of the more important lost works of art to the Ministerial Commission of Endangered Art Collections] July 9, 1947. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XIX-J-13-332-1947, Nos. 13-14; List of Art Treasures Removed by Germans from Hungary and not been returned by March, 1948. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 51, No. 45, 46; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, p. 217, No. 16583-16584.
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