Anton Mozart
Cabinet with Altar for Private Devotions

CultureGerman
Titles
  • Cabinet with Altar for Private Devotions
Date1601
Possible placeItaly
Possible placeFrance
MediumCabinet: pear wood, ebonized walnut, oak, and conifer with steel-etched, part fire-gilt brass mounts and fittings Paintings: oil on copper
DimensionsOverall (closed): 18 1/2 × 13 3/8 × 10 7/16 in. (47 × 34 × 26.5 cm)
Overall (open): 28 1/4 × 22 × 20 in. (71.8 × 55.9 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2008.1
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
200 Brown Gallery
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Provenance[Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2008.

Exhibition History"Two-Eyed Seeing: Contemporary Pasts and Futures at the Blaffer Art Museum," Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, December 9–December 17, 2023. (OL.1658)

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