Escutcheon (Double-Headed Eagle)

With Raoul Heilbronner, Paris;

Probably consigned by Heilbronner to the dealer Eugene Glaenzer (d. 1923), New York, 1911-January 15, 1917 [1];

Purchased from Heilbronner, through Eugene Glaenzer, by French and Company, New York, stock no. 4247, January 15, 1917-June 20, 1933 [2];

Purchased from French and Company by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

NOTES:

[1] Raoul Heilbronner consigned hundreds of objects to Glaenzer, including other objects in the Nelson-Atkins collection. See Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Raoul Heilbronner Papers, box 8, Eugene Glaenzer & Co. Comptes, 1910-1914.  

[2] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, French and Company Stock Sheets, box 3, folder 2. Although the French and Company stock sheet for this object does not include a date of acquisition, stock sheets for similar objects with sequential stock numbers, also from Eugene Glaenzer, list January 15, 1917 as the date of French and Company’s acquisition.