‘Polonaise Carpet’, anonymous, c. 1600 - c. 1625

...; on loan from the Wittelsbach collection to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 1905-18;{Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Archive, Civiliste, Fol. 152, no. 33, inv. no. T 1596.} transferred to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; from whom, 16,500 RM, to the dealer A. S. Drey, 1930;{Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Archive, Dokument 1158, Verzeichnis über die Verkaufserlöse von den im Rechnungsjahre 1930 abgegebenen Sammlungsgegenstände.}…; purchased from the estate of Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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