About the Artwork
Pyx
ca. 1250
Limoges
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French
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Champlevé enamel on gilt copper, glass
Overall: 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (8.9 × 8.9 × 6.7 cm)
Enamel
European Sculpture and Dec 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
Public Domain
Markings
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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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. 21).
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. 5).
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," Detroit Free Press, May 18, 1986, p. 29 (ill.). [DIA Advertising Supplement].
Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): pl. 3, 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, no. 3/4 (1988): pp. 16-25, (fig. 2, 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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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.
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