Lion and Cupid Aquamanile

ca. 1650

Member of the Gronau Family Polish

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Title Lion and Cupid Aquamanile

Artwork Date ca. 1650

Artist Member of the Gronau Family

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Polish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Aquamanile: silver case: wood, leather, suede and copper alloy

Dimensions Overall (aquamanile): 11 13/16 × 10 5/8 × 7 inches (30 × 27 × 17.8 cm) Overall (case): 13 9/16 × 12 1/8 × 7 13/16 inches (34.5 × 30.8 × 19.9 cm)

Classification Silver

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, with funds from the Friends of Polish Art

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1989.66

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Marks Maker's mark, on underside of rim of base: [Gdansk mark and bird]

Provenance

1978, Sotheby Parke Bernet (Zurich, Switzerland). (Old Masters, Painting and Sculpture, Ltd., London, England)

1989-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Fine European Silver. Sales cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet. Zurich, November 22, 1978, lot 178.

Gonzalez-Palacios, A., ed. Objects for a Wunderkammer. Exh. cat., P.D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd. London, 1981, no. 32.

Becker, J. "'Amor vincit omnia': on the closing image of Goethe's Novelle." Simiolus 18, no. 3 (1988): pp. 145-146.

"Selected recent acquisitions" Bulletin of the DIA 65, no. 4 (1990): p. 55 (ill.).

Darr, A. and T. Albainy. "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 406, no. III (color ill.).

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Member of the Gronau Family, Lion and Cupid Aquamanile, ca. 1650, Aquamanile: silver Case: wood, leather, suede and copper alloy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, with funds from the Friends of Polish Art, 1989.66.