Log Rest
CultureItalian
Date15th century
MediumIron
DimensionsOverall: 9 × 21 × 6 inches (22.86 × 53.34 × 15.24 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1570/2
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DescriptionLog rest in the form of a lion couchant. Copy of an original, 15th-century model in stone.ProvenancePeter Theis, by March 12, 1930;
Purchased from Theis by French & Co., New York, stock no. 35953, by March 12, 1930-December 15, 1933 [1];
Purchased from French & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] Getty Research Library, French & Co. Stock Sheets, box 40, folder 2, copies in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file. The date of French & Co.’s purchase from Theis is not recorded on the stock sheet, but the sheet does record that French & Co. first offered the objects to a client on March 12, 1930.
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