Shepherd mugWoodBosnia, 19th cent.Inventoried 1938Volkskundemuseum Wien, ÖMV/43764Photographs of and informations aboutthese objects were sent by the Volkskun-demuseum Wien to the National Fund andpublished in the Fund’s Art Database. Theyare questionable acquisitions. The earringsand Kiddush cup, for example, were pur-chased in 1938 from the antiques dealerReitzner. The Easter egg was acquired bythe museum in 1941 from the auction house,Dorotheum.MRPair of earringsSilver, stoneDolní Žandov(now Czech Republic),19th cent.Inventoried 1938Volkskundemuseum Wien, ÖMV/43798Glass bottleGlassTyrol, c. 1700Inventoried 1942Volkskundemuseum Wien, ÖMV/45604M E DIA STATIONArt Databasewww.kunstdatenbank.atThe Volkskundemuseum Wien has madean agreement with the National Fund of theRepublic of Austria for Victims of NationalSocialism to transfer to the NationalFund expropriated objects that cannot be­restituted because the original ownersand legal successors are unknown. Thisalso applies to objects acquired on the artmarket between 1938 and 1945. The Volks-kundemuseum Wien has submitted dataon 329 objects to the National Fund. Thepublication in the art database might stillmake it possible for the origins of some ofthe objects to be identified.MRKiddush cupSilverUnknown, 1815Inventoried 1938Volkskundemuseum Wien, ÖMV/44068PlateCeramicGmunden(Upper Austria), late 17th cent.Inventoried 1941Volkskundemuseum Wien, ÖMV/45143Easter eggChicken eggSlovakia, 1st half of the 20th cent.Inventoried 1941Volkskundemuseum Wien, ÖMV/45298/003(Fig. 3) Fig. 378