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Pendant Shaped as a Ship
Reinhold Vasters · c. 1870/90
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frédéric Spitzer (1815-1890), Vienna and later Paris [sold, Paris, Mannheim and Chevallier, April 17-June 16, 1893, vol. 2, no. 1820]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1958; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 96; Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, November 18, 1958 - January 4, 1959, cat. 373.
- The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 50.
- Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, Enamels: The XII to the XVI Century, February 2-March 2, 1970, cat. 39.
- Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 37.
Literature
Published references
- Edmond Bonnaffé, "Les Bijoux et les Badges," in La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1891), p. 148, no. 35.
- Donald F. Rowe, "A 'George in Gold' and Enamels in Chicago Collections," Apollo 95 (1972), p. 475, no. 23.
- Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 90 and 98, no. 52.
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