About the Artwork
Laver
ca. 1530
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German
German
Pewter and cast iron
Overall: 18 7/8 × 16 × 9 3/4 inches (47.9 × 40.6 × 24.8 cm)
Pewter
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund
48.378
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Count Hans Wilczek (Burg Kreuzenstein-an-der Donau, Austria). (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Falke, Jakob von. Mittelalterliche Holzmobiliar. Vienna, 1894.
Czobor, Bela. Die Geschichtlichen Denkmaler Ungarns auf der Tausand- Jahrausstellung, vol I. Budapest, 1896, p. 128, fig. 157 (ill.).
Walcher-Moltheim, Alfred von. "Deutsches und Franzoisches Edelzinn in zwei Wienner Sammlungen." Kinst und Kunsthandwerk, vol. VII, 1904, pp. 65, 77 (ill.).
Luthmer, Ferdinand. Deutsche Mobel der Vergangenheit. Leipzig, 1913, pp. 62, 69 (ill.).
Walcher-Moltheim, Alfred von. Burg Kreuzenstein. Vienna, 1914, p. 150.
Berling, Karl. Altes Zinn, Bibliothek fur Kunst und Antiquitatensammler, 1st ed., vol. 16. Berlin, 1919, p. 70 , fig. 49 (ill.); 2nd ed., p. 77, fig. 49 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 31, nos. 3/4 (1951-52): p. 80 (ills.).
An Exhibition of European Art, 1450- 1500. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1936, no. 203, pl. 203.
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1975, no. 72, pp. 64, 65 (ill.).
Fliegel, Stephen N. and Elina Gertsman. Myth and Mystique: Cleveland’s Gothic Table Fountain. Cleveland, 2016, pp. 133-135. [cat. 11; entry by Casey Monda]
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German, Laver, ca. 1530, pewter and cast iron. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund, 48.378.
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