Terracotta mold

Maximinen Strasse

about 1520

Object PlaceGermany

Medium/TechniqueTerra cotta

DimensionsDiameter 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson

Accession number60.18

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceOscar Bondy (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Elisabeth Bondy, Vienna and New York [see note 1]; probably sold by Mrs. Bondy to Blumka Gallery, New York [see note 2]; December 30, 1959, sold by Blumka to R. Thornton Wilson (b. 1886 - d. 1977), New York; 1960, gift of R. Thornton Wilson to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 14, 1960)

NOTES:
[1] A label remains on the underside of the mold reading "O. Bondy". Attempts to identify this sculpture in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection, however, have not been successful.

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. 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.