On Base: DME REGINA MISERICORDI [?]ITA DULCED
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
Details
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.