About the Artwork
Lion and Cupid Aquamanile
ca. 1650
Member of the Gronau Family
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Polish
Unknown
Aquamanile: silver case: wood, leather, suede and copper alloy
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)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, with funds from the Friends of Polish Art
1989.66
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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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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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.
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