Shrine, 1430/1460

  • Flemish

Elephant ivory, bone, wood, pigment, gold leaf

  • Overall (shrine): 19 inches × 13 3/8 inches × 4 1/4 inches (48.3 × 34 × 10.8 cm) Overall (statuette): 8 1/2 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (21.6 × 7 × 5.4 cm) Overall (sockel): 3 inches × 2 5/16 inches × 1 1/16 inches (7.6 × 5.8 × 2.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

23.149

On View

  • European: Medieval, Level 2, Central

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

On Base: DME REGINA MISERICORDI [?]ITA DULCED

until 1923, (Max Heilbronner, Berlin, Germany)

1923, sold to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

R. H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York 1993), pl. 7, cat. no. 35, pp. 52-53 P. Barnet, ed., IMAGES IN IVORY: PRECIOUS OBJECTS OF THE GOTHIC AGE (exh. cat.), Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997, cat. no. 78, pp. 267-279

Flemish, Shrine, 1430/1460, elephant ivory, bone, wood, pigment, gold leaf. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 23.149.