Details
| Artist | Member of the Gronau Family, Polish |
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| Date | ca. 1650 |
| 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) |
| Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, with funds from the Friends of Polish Art |
| Accession Number | 1989.66 |
| Department | European Sculpture and Dec Arts |
| On View | Dutch Golden Age S380, Level 3 (see map) |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Marks | Maker's mark, on underside of rim of base: [Gdansk mark and bird] |
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Provenance
1978, Sotheby Parke Bernet (Zurich, Switzerland).
Old Masters, Painting and Sculpture, Ltd.;
1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Old Masters, Painting and Sculpture, Ltd.;
1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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.).
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.).