Coin Container
Item number Cg276 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Square white coin bank in the form of a miniature two-tiered stove. Cutwork 12-leg base. All edges outlined in blue lines, dashes or dots. All sides but one have inscriptions in light brown, including date "1754". Slot at top for coins.
Cultural Context
functional; decorative
Iconographic Meaning
The inscription around the sides reads: SOLLI DEO GLORIA SO SCHICK ICH MINE SINEN UND GEZAIKEN HIN - JE SCHIBEN IM JAHR DA GUTE WIN WAR - DORADEA WAT EN WISSERE 1754 - WO ICH GERN WAR UND NICHT KAN SIN.
Narrative
Previously part of the Oscar Bondy collection (#71). This piece, along with the rest of his collection, was seized and expropriated with the "Anschluss" (annexation of Austria) to Nazi Germany in 1938. Bondy and his wife escaped to Switzerland, then to the USA (Bondy died in NY in 1944). In 1940 the coinbank was assigned to the 'Fuhrermuseum' in Linz; then transported to the Reichskunstdepot Kremsmunster. Between 1944 and June 1945 it was transported to the Altaussee saltmine; on June 28, 1945 it was transported to the Munich central collecting point; in June 1946 it was sent back to Austria, and deposited in the Kremsmunster. On February 17, 1948 it was marked as restituted to Bondy's wife, Elisabeth, in the US. In 1949 Elisabeth put the collection up for sale at a NY auction. The records at MOA do not say when Walter Koerner purchased the piece from the art market.
Item History
- Made in Austria during 1754
- Owned by Oscar Bondy
- Owned by Walter C. Koerner before December 2, 1988
- Received from Walter C. Koerner (Donor) on December 2, 1988
What
- Name
- Coin Container
- Identification Number
- Cg276
- Type of Item
- container
- Material
- paint, glaze and clay
- Manufacturing Technique
- moulded, fired, painted, refired, glazed and luted
- Overall
- height 11.4 cm, width 6.5 cm, depth 6.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Austria
Who
- Culture
- Austrian
- Previous Owner
- Oscar Bondy and Walter C. Koerner
- Received from
- Walter C. Koerner (Donor)
When
- Creation Date
- during 1754
- Ownership Date
- before December 2, 1988
- Acquisition Date
- on December 2, 1988
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics; earthenware; tin-glaze
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 1417/0328
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