Ring

Karl Albrecht Frickhinger, Munich (from 1960s–1988); [ The Daphne Collection Inc., Liechtenstein and Seychelles (from 1988)]; [ Wolfgang Wilhelm, Germany (sold 2006)]; Josef Hatzenbuehler, Houston (2006–2009);

The work was donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Joseph Hatzenbuehler, Houston, Texas, in 2009. Mr. Hatzenbuehler acquired the ring in 2006 from Wolfgang Wilhelm, a dealer or agent in Germany. The seller to Mr. Wilhelm was the Daphne Collection Inc., Liechtenstein and Seychelles, which provided a written statement stating that it had owned the ring since 1988, and purchased it from Karl Albrecht Frickhinger of Germany (b. 1924- d. 2003), a fossil specialist, publisher, archaeologist, who had acquired the work in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s.