Pyx

ca. 1250

Limoges French

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European: Medieval, Level 2, Central Wing

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Title Pyx

Artwork Date ca. 1250

Artist Limoges

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Champlevé enamel on gilt copper, glass

Dimensions Overall: 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (8.9 × 8.9 × 6.7 cm)

Classification Enamel

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund with matching funds from the David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1985.29

Markings

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Marks Marks, in pen, on underside, on right portion of paper label from the St. George's Exhibition of 1886]: ...of Norfolk.

Provenance

1855, Ralph Bernal

1856, Lord Londesborough

1886, Duke of Norfolk (Arundel Castle, Sussex, England)

Henry Bernard (Paris, France)

(Edward R. Lubin, New York, New York, USA)

1985-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Celebrated Works of Art... of that Distinguished Collector, Ralph Bernal, Esq. Sales cat., Christie's. London, March 5, 1855, p. 104, no.1290.

Fairholt, F.W. Miscellania Graphica: Representations of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Remains in the Posession of Lord Londesborough. London, 1856, pl. XXI.

Highly Important Medieval Works of Art... of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk. Sales cat., Christie's. London, November 28, 1961, p. 19, no. 47 pl. V.

Gauthier, Marie-Madeleine. Corpus des emaux champlevés meridonaux, T. IIA Industrie Limousine.

Collection de Monsieur Henry Bernard, Emaux champlevés de Limoges. Exh. cat., Monte Carlo Art Gallery. Monaco, October 7, 1979, no. 34 (ill.).

"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, May 18, 1986, p. 29 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): pl. III, p. 24.

Bilimoff, M. Pyxides d'Origine Limousine conservées en France. Master's thesis, University of Paris, 1979, pp. 48-49.

Barnet, Peter. "Medieval Limoges Enamels in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 63, nos. 3/4 (1988): pp. 16-25, figs. 2 and 9.

Parker, E.C., ed. "Recent Acquisitions of Medieval Art by American Museums." Gesta 26, no. 1 (1987, p. 79 (fig. 1).

"Principales acquisitions des musees en 1986." La Chronique des arts, supplement to Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1418 (March 1987): p. 20, no. 127 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Limoges, Pyx, ca. 1250, champlevé enamel on gilt copper, glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund with matching funds from the David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation, 1985.29.