Where did the Relief with Addorsed Ducks go?
This object was purchased by the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in April 1936 in Rome, Italy from Dr. Kurt Cassirer. Cassirer was a German Kunsthistoriker (art historian) or Kunsthändler (art dealer). His surname derives from the occupation of his ancestors, as “Kassirer” is the Yiddish-German for “cashier.” Cassirer was born in 1883 in Gdansk, Pomerania, Prussia and died in 1975 in Wales at 92 years old. As is the process for many of the pieces obtained from Cassirer by the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, the exchanges were facilitated by Adolph Loewi, a German Jewish art and antiquities dealer. He is especially known as a dealer of textiles with one gallery in Venice and another in New York.
