
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Coconut Cup with Biblical Scenes from the Life of David
Unattributed · 1577-78
Provenance
Ownership history
- Victor Rothschild [according to letter in curarotial file].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, March 2–June 14, 1987, cat. 36
- Los Angeles County Museum, <em>Three Centuries of English Silver</em>, September 29–November 12, 1950, no. 7.
Literature
Published references
- Rolf Fritz, <em>Die Gefässe aus Kokosnuss in Mitteleuropa, 1250–1800</em> (Mainz am Rhein: 1983), pp. 108–09, no. 123, pl. 65.
- <em>Antiques</em> vol. 95, no. 6 (June 1969), p. 818, no. 6.
- “Three Centuries of English Silver,” <em>Los Angeles County Museum Bulletin of the Art Division</em> vol. 3, no. 3 (Fall 1950), no. 7, fig. 3.
- "Elizabethan Cocoanut Cup," <em>Connoisseur</em> (May 1938), p. 260; advertised in same issue by Peter Guille, p. 41.
- <em>Connoisseur</em> (June 1937), p. 360 (ill.).
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