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Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Musical instruments
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente 573
Description
London, 1790, rectangular body made of mahogany, structured in compartments by several kinds of woods and bands in various colours, three levers to the left of the keyboard at the beginning of the bass, from F1 to f3. Signature: 'Adam Beyer Londini Fecit 1790/Compton Street SOHO'
Material
Wood
Height
80 cm
Width
157.1 cm
Period
18th Century
Provenance Data
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
March 11, 1944 acquired at an auction at the Dorotheum (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