Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe Inventar der Sammlung antiker Bronzen. F (Karlsruhe, 1878

Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe

Inventar der Sammlung antiker Bronzen. F

Karlsruhe, 1878–1918, 1982

Reporting period 1878–1918 (F 1 – F 2217) and additions F 2220(R) – F 2223(R) from 1982
More than half of the collection originates from the purchase of the Maler (1853) and Clarke (1881/82) collections. Smaller collections from Schüler (1859), Thiersch (1860) and Bullinger (1898) have further expanded the collection. Most of the pieces without provenance are likely to originate from Italy. One of the larger collections includes over 100 bronzes from Lusoi (Arcadia) purchased by Robert Zahn. The F inventory also includes over 70 imitation bronzes, some of which are electroplated copies of prominent antique metal finds from renowned workshops such as Christofle & Cie, WMF, Elkington and Paul Telge (Berlin). The sheets of the F inventory, which were later bound into a volume, were probably initially created in 1878 as part of a larger inventory volume covering several areas of the collection. This is indicated by the page numbering, which begins at 73 and continues consistently to 147, and the register-like incision on pages 73–138.