About the Artwork
Gemellion
between 1250 and 1300
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French
French
Copper with champlevé enamel
Overall: 8 7/8 inches (22.5 cm)
Enamel
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
42.102
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York, New York, USA)
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Robinson, F.W. "A Limoges Enamelled Gemellion." Bulletin of the DIA 22 (1943): pp. 26-28.
Buchthal, H. "A Note on Islamic Enameled Metalwork and its Influence in the Latin West." Ars Islamica XI-XII (1946): pp. 195-198.
Lesley, Jr., E.P. Enamel: An Historic Survey to the Present Day. Exh. cat., Cooper Union Museum. New York, 1954, no. 34
The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context. Exh cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1981, no. 35.
Champeaux-Dufeutrelle, S. Les gemellions imousins du XIIIe siècle à scènes de musique et de danse. Master's thesis, University of Paris, 1980, cat. no. 20.
Buchthal, Hugo. Art of the Meditteranean World: A.D. 100- 1400. Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 32-35 with post-script.
Barnet, P. "Medieval Limoges Enamels in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 63, nos. 3/4 (1988): p. 22; 25; p. 21, fig. 10 (ill.); p. 22, fig. 11 (ill.).
Rey-Delque, ed., M. Le crociate: L'oriente e l'occidente da Urbano II a San Luigi 1096-1270. Exh. cat. Milan and Rome, 1997, p. 349 (ill.); 399, no. 186.
Rey-Delque, ed., M. Les croisades: L'orient et loccident d'Urbain II à San Louis 1096-1270. Exh. cat. Milan and Toulouse, 1997, p. 349 (ill.); 409, no. 186.
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French, Gemellion, between 1250 and 1300, copper with champlevé enamel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 42.102.
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