New York 1975: France or Italy, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy. Painted decoration.
Provenance
De Lannoy collection, Paris. Albert Figdor collection: his sale, Vienna, 29-30 September 1930, lot 336 (Kästchen und Schachteln des 14.-16. Jahrhunderts, Kästchen aus Metall, Glocken, Mörser, Bronzegerät des Mittelalters, Bronzeplatten von Epitaphien, Wappen und Totenschilder, no. 336, pl. CXXXVI). Collection of Oscar Bondy, Vienna. Collection of Mrs. Leopold Blumka, New York (in 1975). Private collection, London (in 2015).
Bibliography
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, no. 11.
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