Note of thanks

 

Special thanks to the sponsor Aldi Group Germany for their generous donation which made this website possible, to the Haus des Stiftens Mr. Alexander Brochier and Philipp Hof, to Mr. Clive Mutch Banbury UK, to Mr. Maximilian Druck for technical support and to Mrs. Ilse and Karl Druck for their support over the years.

Special scholarly thanks go to the Fonazione Instituto di Belle Arte e Museo Leone Vercelli Sen. Dr. Luca Brusotto, the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg Mrs. Dr. Ramsauer, the State Archives of the Canton of Solothurn Mr. State Archivist Andreas Frankhemmer, Dr. Michael Lorenz, Institute of Music Vienna, the British Museum London Mrs. Natasha Awais-Dean, the OENA Austrian National Archives Vienna, the National Museum Stockholm , the Nordiska Museum Stockholm, Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz Mrs. Dr. Eva Marko, Musée du Louvre Paris Mons. Philippe Walgrouyres, Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin Dr. Angela Schönberger, Austrian State Archives Vienna, Fitz William Museum Cambridge, Herzog Anton Ullrich Museum Braunschweig Dr. Alfred Walz, the Austrian National Library Dr. Kudrna Leopold, the Museo Mario Praz Rome, the Historisches Museum Basel, the Delft University of Technology Dr. Joris Dik, French Church Berlin Mr. Robert Violet, the Jewellery Museum Pforzheim Mrs. Cornelie Holzach, de, Victoria & Albert Museum London Mrs. Marjorie Trusted & Lissy Bisley & Mr. Dr. Paul Williamson, the Royal Academy London Mr. Adrew Potter, the Royal Museums Greenwich Mrs. Barbara Thomlinson, the Central Museum Utrecht, the Loyds Museum London, the Walters Museum Baltimore, the Waddeston House U.K., the Heimatmuseum Geislingen, the Hermitage st. Petersburg, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Metropolitan Museum N.Y., the Museum Krakow, the Museum Le Havre Le Havre, Musee Orsey Paris, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Suermondt Ludwig Museum Aachen, New Whaling Museum Bedford, the Musee Carnevalet Paris, the Buckingham Museum London, the Musee Cluny Paris, the Deutsches Elfenbein Museum Erbach Fr. Rocco & Sen. Giuseppe Ponzone Archivio Storico del Comune Asti, the Holburne Museum Bath Mr. Matthews Winterbottom, the National Museum of Finland Helsinki Mr. Jouni Kuurne, the Natur-Historisches Museum Vienna Dr. Vera Hammer, the Liechtenstein Museum Liechtenstein Mag. Nina Gockerell, the Stift Seitenstetten Pater Martin Mayrhofer, the Musée Historique de Lausanne Mon. Laurent Golay, the Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien Frau E. Schmuttermeier, the Oberösterreichisches Landes-museum Linz Herr Dr. Peter Assmann, the Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Graz, the Schweizer Nationalmuseum Zürich, the Skulpturengalerie Berlin Frau Dr. A. Schönberger ,the Musee du Chateau Mons. Pierre Ickowicz, the National Museum Helsinki Dr. Jouni Kuurne, the City Museum and Art Gallery Bristol, the Royal Libary London, the Natural History Museum Moscow, Mr. Peter Volk, Diana Scarisbrick and Mr. Paul Bissegger.  

Furthermore, thanks are due for support and media publications by the auction houses, antique dealers and private collectors and book authors: the auction house Sotheby's London Mr. Eike D. Schmidt, the auction house Christie's London Mrs. Kate McKenzie, the auction house Bonhams London Mr. Michael Lake, Mr. Lionel Willis, Sofia Peers, Annalisa Jensen, the auction house van Ham in Cologne Mr Markus Eisenbeis, the auction house Dorotheum Vienna, the auction house Palais Kinsky Vienna, the auction house Nagel Stuttgart,Waterford Art & Antiques Auctioneers Berlin USA, Garth Auctions Ohio, Westport Auctions, Auktionshaus Piguet Geneve, Auktionshaus Koller Zürich, Auktionshaus Fischer Luzern, Auktionshaus Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen, Mr. Gerard Boilet + & Jacob Portengen Paris, Craig A. & J.E. Finch & Co London, Mr Heller Dormagen, Mrs Lisa M. Stockhammer Georgian jewellery San Marcos, Mrs Helga and Anna Maria Wager Munich, Comte Charles-Andre Coloma Walewski, Albion art Collection Jewelry Museum Mr Arikawa Tokyo, Gen Katagiri Tokyo, M.S. Rau Antiques New Orleans, Antiques Mrs Brenda Ginsberg, Mr Mr Tom Barrans Coll, Roost Antiques Nashville,Three Gracies, Rogarts.com, of Eden Coll., Mutual arts, Alan Morgan, Berry Weber, Coll. Mrs. Charles Wrightman N.Y., Jaime Eguiguren, antiqueanimalsjewelry.com, Matthew Holder London, Bell and Bird, the collection cooperhewitt.org, Eurodecart.com, Antiques common-treasure.com, hhantiquesjewelry.com, the collection Jaque Drouz London, the Textile Collection NL, Larner Antiques, Heart of Antique Jewelry, 

and the translators who contributed to this site, (names to follow)...