About the Artwork
Book Cover: The Crucifixion
ca. 1200
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French
French
Champlevé enamel and gilding on copper, mounted on an oak core
Overall: 11 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (29.8 × 19.1 cm)
Enamel
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II
62.96
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Baron Frédéric Spitzer (Paris, France)
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1893, lot 250
John Edward Taylor (London, England)
his sale, London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1 July and 9 July 1912, lot no. 70 Catalina Von Pannwitz-Roth, "De Hartekamp," Heemstede, The Netherlands
1961, consigned to Rosenberg & Stiebel (dealer), New York, New York, USA)
1962-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Anne and Henry Ford II
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La collection Spitzer. Paris, 1890, vol. 1, p. 111, no. 42.
Catalogue of European Enamels. Exh. cat., Burlington Fine Art Club. London, 1897, no. 15.
Catalogue of the Collection...of John Edward Taylor. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods. London, July 1, 1912, no. 70.
Friedlander, M.J. and O. von Falke. Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz, 2 vols. Munich, 1925, no. 67.
Dodenhoff, J. "A Limoges Enamel Bookcover." Bulletin of the DIA 42 (1962-1963): pp. 23-25 (ill., detail).
The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 22.
Gauthier, M.-M. "Les Reliures en Email de Limoges conservees en France: Recensement Raisonne." Humanisme actif : Melanges d'art et de littérature offerts à Julien Cain. Paris, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 271-287.
Barnet, Peter. "Medieval Limoges Enamels in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 63, nos. 3/4 (1988): pp. 16-25 (figs. 1 and 5).
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French, Book Cover: The Crucifixion, ca. 1200, champlevé enamel and gilding on copper, mounted on an oak core. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II, 62.96.
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