Simple pedal harp
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Musical instruments
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente 540
Description
Graz, 1st half of 19th century, trapezoidal body with three chips made of flamed maple (?), middle brown ground and transparent covering lacquer, two oval soundholes at back, foot part continuing into two carved lions' paws, octagonal column, forty-four tunes (from D1 to e3). Signature: 'B. Straub/in/Grätz'
Material
Wood
Height
161 cm
Width
41 cm
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
29 September 1941 acquired at an auction at the Dorotheum, Main Office (title: 'Unterhaltung und Vermehrung der Sammlungen' - Conservation and Enlargement of the Collections)
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.
No recommendation has been issued yet.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism