Jug
dated 1584
Object PlaceGermany
Medium/TechniqueGlazed stoneware with stamped and applied ornament
DimensionsHeight 43.2 cm (17 in.)
Credit LineGift of J. Templeman Cooldige, by exchange
Accession number58.299
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceOscar Bondy (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Elisabeth Bondy, Vienna and New York [see note 1]; probably sold from the Bondy collection to Blumka Gallery, New York [see note 2]; 1958, acquired from Blumka, by exchange, by the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 1958)
NOTES:
[1] 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. This jug is identifiable in two undated photographs of a room in Bondy's Vienna home (copy in MFA curatorial file).
[2] 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] 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. This jug is identifiable in two undated photographs of a room in Bondy's Vienna home (copy in MFA curatorial file).
[2] 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.
13th–14th century
first half of 14th century
A.D. 668–935
A.D. 668–935
A.D. 668–935
A.D. 668–935
8th–9th century A.D.
early 15th century