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Casket
Workshop of the Embriachi Family · c. 1390-c. 1410
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mrs. Potter Palmer, early twentieth-century [according to notes in curatorial files]; by descent through the Palmer family until 1985, when it was given to the museum.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, October 2, 1985-January 5, 1986.
- Detroit Institute of Arts and Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, March 1-May 11, 1997, and Walters Art Gallery, June 21-August 31, 1997, cat. 81.
Literature
Published references
- Richard H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 148, no. 236.
- Christina Nielsen, ed., Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 9, 68-69, cat. 44.
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