Candlestick, between 1225 and 1250

  • French

Champlevé enamel on copper

  • Overall: 10 5/16 × 5 1/2 inches (26.2 × 14 cm)

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

On View

  • European: Medieval, Level 2, Central

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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)

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.

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.