About the Artwork
Candlestick
between 1225 and 1250
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French
French
Champlevé enamel on copper
Overall: 10 5/16 × 5 1/2 inches (26.2 × 14 cm)
Enamel
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Ralph H. Booth Bequest Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Fund for Medieval Art, Abraham Borman Family Fund, funds from the David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation, the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation, Randolph J. Agley, Lillian Shaye-Hirsch and Bernard Hirsch
1998.2
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
G. Chalandon (Lyon, France)
by 1964-1971, Kofler-Truniger collection (Lucerne, Switzerland)
Edmund de Unger, Keir collection
(Sotheby's, New York, New York, USA)
1998-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Keir Collection of Medieval Works of Art. Sales cat., Sotheby's. New York, November 20, 2007, lot 32.
Stokstad, M. Mediecal Enamels and Sculptures from the Keir Collection. Exh. cat., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, 1983, p. 56.
Gauthier, M.-M. "La collection E. et M. Kofler-Truniger à Lucerne (Suisse): les émaux champlevés méridionaux." Société archéologique et historique du Limousin 93 (1966): pp. 17-34.
Schnitzler H., et al. Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger Luzern, II, Email, Goldschmiede und Metallarbeiten. Lucerne and Stuttgart, 1965, p. 38, no. E111.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus. Lucerne and Zurich, 1964, no. 905, p. 98.
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French, Candlestick, between 1225 and 1250, champlevé enamel on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Ralph H. Booth Bequest Fund, et al., 1998.2.
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