id:			127704
accession number:	1950.370
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.370
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:15.879000

Owl , 1540. Southern Germany, 16th century. Faience; diameter: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.); overall: 25.9 x 10.2 cm (10 3/16 x 4 in.); part 1: 22.9 cm (9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. 1950.370

title:				Owl 
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creation date:			1540
creation date earliest:		1540
creation date latest:		1540
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creditline:			Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.
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culture:	Southern Germany, 16th century
technique:	faience
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Diameter: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.); Overall: 25.9 x 10.2 cm (10 3/16 x 4 in.); Part 1: 22.9 cm (9 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Juxtapositions
	opening date:   1965-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Juxtapositions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

	title:		The Collection of Maximillian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
	opening date:   2023-01-28T05:00:00
	<i>The Collection of Maximillian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild</i>. Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (organizer) (January 28-June 4, 2023) https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/visit/exhibitions/the-collection-of-maximilian-von-goldschmidt-rothschild/.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Frankfurt, Germany (1925). [Plate 3 under no 2]', 'opening_date': '1925-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>The Bird in Art, </em>Seattle Art Museum, Washington (June 6 - August 12, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-06-06T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940), Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
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	(Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art).
	date: -1950
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1950-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Paris (France), Seymour de Ricci, and Ganay.<em> Exposition d'objets d'art du moyen age et de la renaissance: tirés des collections particulières de la France et de l'étranger</em>. Paris: Emile Lévy, 1913.
	page number: 	Pl. LXVIII
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	Milliken, William M. “Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1950.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 38, no. 6 (1951).
	page number: 	p. 157
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141726

	Hüseler, Konrad.<em> Deutsche Fayencen; ein Handbuch der Fabriken, ihrer Meister und Werke. </em>Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1956.
	page number: 	fig 64-65, pp. 159-160
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 254
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n54

	Tait, Hugh, "Birds in Ceramic Art, The Owl, I," <em>Apollo </em>(April 1958).
	page number: 	p. 112
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 113
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n137

	Hillier, Bevis<em>. Pottery and Porcelain 1700-1914: England, Europe and North America. </em>London: Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson, 1968.
	page number: 	p. 188, fig. 200
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 113
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n137

	K, Matthias Wagner, and Katharina Weiler. <em>The Collection of Maximilian Von Goldschmidt-Rothschild. </em>Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 299; Reproduced: p. 315, G.R.1299
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