Georg von Békésy's Art Collection

 

 

This page shows examples of objects in Georg von Békésy's art collection. Upon his death in 1972, the entire collection was donated to the Nobel Foundation. The Foundation performed a thorough assessment of the objects in the collection and published a volume from which all the the pictures and text on this page are excerpted:

 

 

 

Female statuette of baked clay
Height 9.6 cm.
End of the 6^th millenium B.C.
Anatolia.
(front view)

 

 

Female statuette of baked clay
Height 9.6 cm.
End of the 6^th millenium B.C.
Anatolia.
(side view)

 

 

Jug of Gold
Height 18 cm; weight 435 grs.
2300-2100 B.C.
Central Anatolia, probably Alaca Hüyük.

 

 

 

Baboon of limestone and silver
Height 19.5 cm.
Late Period, Egypt.

Ceremonial axe of bronze
Length 18.4; width of blade 8.4; shaft height 5.9; upper diameter 1.7, lower diameter 1.8 cm.
12-10^th century B.C.
Luristan.

Bracelet of silver
Diameter 6.5-7.1 cm.
Late 5^th-early 4^th century B.C. Achaemenid.
Iran?

 

 

Anthropomorphic tube of bronze
Height 18.2 cm; width 5.7 cm.
8^th century B.C.
Luristan

 

 

Bottle of greenish glass
Height 7.7 cm.
9^th-10^th century.
Persia.

 

 

 

Koran page with tuluth and kufic script
Height 45 cm; width 33 cm.
Dated 1347 A.D.
Probably Arabic.

 

 

 

 

Polychrome painted dish of glazed pottery
Diameter 25.5 cm
Late 16^th or early 17^th century
Anatolia

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