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Übersee-Museum Bremen: B13619




Übersee-Museum Bremen: B13619 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Object description
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Object Name	Gedenkkopf
Description	Dreidimensionale Darstellung eines Kopfes mit konischer Kopfbedeckung. Kopf und Hals gehen ineinander über und enden auf einem schmalen nach außen gestelltem Standring. Dieser ist mit einem Muster versehen, das aussieht, wie ein Band, das endlos in Schlaufen gelegt ist, die an Achten erinnern. Den Hals zieren rinformige Strukturen und die Kopfbedeckung hat eine gitterförmige Struktur mit einzelnen perlenartigen Schmuckelementen. An der Seite des Kopfes sind je zwei senkrechte Stränge, die an Haare erinnern. Die Augenbrauen werden durch je vier senkrechtstehende elipsenförmige Elemente gebildet.
Type
Materials	Messing
Size, Dimensions	Allgemein: 52 x 27,5 cm, ca. 21 kg
Dating of Object	before 1936

Museum / Collection / Acquisition
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Museum	Übersee-Museum Bremen
Museum Inv.-No	B13619
Collector
Acquisition date	1936-12-23
Circumstances of acquisition	Given to the museum by: Hans Meyer; Type of aquisition: Buy

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Object Type	sculpture
Materials	metal; brass
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Dataset

ID	1151
last Change	2021-08-07 00:00:00
License	Übersee-Museum Bremen

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