Tile
Hans Kraut
(German (active in Villingen), about 1570–1590)
dated 1563
Medium/TechniqueGlazed earthenware, colored enamels
DimensionsOverall: 32.7 x 28.3 cm (12 7/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson
Accession number65.30
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceCount Hans Johann Nepomuk von Wilczek (b. 1837 - d. 1922), Kreuzenstein, Austria [see note 1]. Possibly Oscar Bondy (b. 1870 - d. 1944), Vienna and New York [see note 2]; possibly sold from the Bondy collection to Blumka Gallery, New York; April 13, 1964, sold by Blumka to R. Thornton Wilson (b. 1886 - d. 1977), New York; 1965, gift of R. Thornton Wilson to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 13, 1965).
NOTES:
[1] The reverse of the tile is inscribed with his name.
[2] According to an interoffice memorandum from Hanns Swarzenski to Perry Rathbone (January 13, 1965; in the MFA curatorial file). Attempts to identify the tile in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection have not been successful.
With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Oscar and Elisabeth Bondy were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. 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. For further on Oscar Bondy, see Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Vienna, 2003), pp. 216-245.
NOTES:
[1] The reverse of the tile is inscribed with his name.
[2] According to an interoffice memorandum from Hanns Swarzenski to Perry Rathbone (January 13, 1965; in the MFA curatorial file). Attempts to identify the tile in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection have not been successful.
With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Oscar and Elisabeth Bondy were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. 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. For further on Oscar Bondy, see Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Vienna, 2003), pp. 216-245.
