Johann Gottlieb Kirchner – Lion (one of a pair) – German, Meissen – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/208816
second half of 1730, and it is known that modeler Johann Gottlieb Kirchner (German, b.
second half of 1730, and it is known that modeler Johann Gottlieb Kirchner (German, b.
On the back of this rectangular ivory panel, a raised rim surrounds a smooth, recessed compartment, displaying the vertical orientation of the ivory grain. The recessed field provided an area for the panel to receive a thin sheet of wax that could be used as an erasable writing surface
Les Arts 9, no. 100 (April 1910). p. 5.
Havemeyer, 1929 Object Number: 29.100.32a, b Mrs. H. O. (Louisine W.)
This picture was painted in 1653 for the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo (1610/11–1678) and sent from Amsterdam to his palace in Messina during the summer of 1654. Ruffo was an avid collector; at his death he had 364 paintings, including a work by Van Dyck, Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, now also in The Met (Spiegel Historiael 4 (September 1969), p. 456, fig. 9. B[ob]. Haak.
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Harmonica Pitch Pipe Hohner Viola d’Amore German 18th century ‘Gaillard’ Musette P.
References and Further Reading Bennett, Wendell C., and Junius B. Bird.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 32, fig. 49.
The Hague, 1924, p. 378, attributes it to Daddi. Richard Offner.
[By 1964 and until 1973, with Herbert Cahn, Basel]; 1973, purchased by Rosemary and George Lois from Herbert Cahn; 1973-2010, collection of Rosemary and George Lois, New York; on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973, 1992, and 1999; acquired in 2010, purchased from Rosemary and George Lois through Bobbie Entwistle of Entwistle London
Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. no. 58 ter., p.