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Jug - Greybeard
German
dated 1603
Object Place: Siegburg
Medium/Technique
Salt-glazed stoneware, pewter
Dimensions
Height x length: 42.5 × 26.7 cm (16 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John Templeman Coolidge, by exchange
Accession Number58.298
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionThree coats of arms flecked with blue (one partially broken). Flat handle holds mount for domed pewter lid with finial and ball thumbpiece.
ProvenancePossibly Oscar Bondy (b. 1870 - d. 1944), Vienna and New York [see note 1]; possibly sold from the Bondy collection to Blumka Gallery, New York; 1958, acquired from Blumka, by exchange, by the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 1958)
NOTES:
[1] According to notes in the MFA curatorial file. Attempts to identify the jug in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection have not been successful.
Oscar Bondy, a Jewish businessman living in Vienna, had owned a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art, which was seized and expropriated with the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938. Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Blumka Gallery.
NOTES:
[1] According to notes in the MFA curatorial file. Attempts to identify the jug in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection have not been successful.
Oscar Bondy, a Jewish businessman living in Vienna, had owned a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art, which was seized and expropriated with the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938. Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Blumka Gallery.