Hümpen with the Coat of Arms of Elector Johann Georg IV of Saxony
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Hoffkellerei, Residenz, Dresden, Germany, from at least 1880–1924.
Moritzburg Castle, Mortizburg, Saxony, Germany, 1924–1945
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, Germany, 1945–1999
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, Netherlands, 2024
House of Wettin, Residenzschloss and later Schloss Moritzburg, Dresden, Germany, 1692-1945 [1];
Confiscated by Soviet occupiers and administered by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Schloss Moritzburg and Schloss Pillnitz, near Dresden, inv. no. 39504, 1945-1999 [2];
Restituted to the House of Wettin by the state of Saxony, 1999 [3];
Purchased from the House of Wettin by Rudigier Fine Art Ltd., London [4];
Purchased from Rudigier Fine Art Ltd. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.
NOTES:
[1] This glass is included in a description of objects in the Residenzschloss Hof-Kellerei as: “Zwei Stück. 1692 und 1693. Wappen Kurfürst Johann Georgs IV” in Friedrich August O‘Bryn, Die Hof-Silberkammer und die Hof-Kellerei zu Dresden (Dresden: Wilhelm Baensch, 1880), 168. Following the establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1918/19 and the end of monarchical rule in Germany, the state was granted the power to confiscate former royal property in exchange for compensation. In an agreement between the former royal House of Wettin and the state of Saxony dated 9 August 1924, the Wettins received Schloss Moritzburg and several thousand works of art, including this glass, which was inventoried at Moritzburg in 1928 (no. A 70; this number is written on the bottom of the glass). With thanks to Dr. Barbara Bechter, Provenance Research and Collection History, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, for her assistance documenting the provenance of this object.
[2] Following the confiscation of the museums and former royal and noble residences in and around Dresden in 1945, large numbers of seized artworks were transferred to the Soviet Union. Control over a smaller group of objects, including this glass, was given to the Dresden State Art Collections, which administered Schloss Moritzburg as a museum of Baroque art beginning in 1946. This glass is included in a 1 December 1954 inventory of Moritzburg (no. G 242; this number is written on the bottom of the glass). In 1963, the Museum für Kunsthandwerk (today Kunstgewerbemuseum) was reestablished at Schloss Pilllnitz (after its original building in the Dresden city center was damaged during the bombing of Dresden in 1945) and this glass was moved to Schloss Pillnitz. It is included as one of five humpen in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Gisela Haase, Sächsiches Glas vom 17. Bis zum Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts: Katalog von Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Schloß Pillnitz (Dresden: Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 1974), 55, cat. no. 50 (inv. nos. 39504, 39409-11, 39408).
[3] Kulturstiftung der Länder, “Die Schätze des Hauses Wettin,” Patrimonia 186 (2000).
[4] According to object
documentation provided by Rudigier Fine Art Ltd., Nelson-
Atkins curatorial file.
Friedrich August O’Bryn, Die Hof-Silberkammer und die Hof-Kellerai zu Dresden (Dresden: Officin von Wilhelm Baensch): 168;
Gisela Haase, Sächsisches Glas vom 17. bis zum Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts Ausstellung im Museum für Kunsthandwerk Dresden Schloß Pillnitz, exh. cat. (Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1975): no. 50, p. 55.
