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Rosewater Ewer and Basin
Franz Dotte · 1603/1609
Provenance
Ownership history
- Charles Wertheimer; Viscount Clifden, Co. Kilkenny; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York, by 1908 [see Jones, 1908, p. 20]; estate of J. P. Morgan [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 30, 31-November 1, 1947, see Rogers 1948, p. 62].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths Work of European Origin, 1901, p. 105, pl. 81.
- Worcester Art Museum, The Virtuoso Craftsman: Northern European Design in the Sixteenth Century, 27 March – 25 May 1969, no. 68.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, March 2 – June 14, 1987.
Literature
Published references
- E. Alfred Jones, Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq. (London, 1908) p. 20.
- Meyric R. Rogers, Early Silver from the Morgan Collection, The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 42, 5 (September 1948), pp. 59-64, here 62, figs. 5A-B..
- Chicago Art Institute Masterpiece of the Month. "Ewer and Rosewater Dish, by Franz Dotte, German, ca. 1600, Buckingham Collection." (July 1, 1951).
- Hugh Tait, Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, vol. 2: The Silver Plate (London, 1988), p. 254, fig. 262-63, under no. 46-47..
- Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, European Decorative Arts in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), pp. 20, 23, 25 (ill.).
- Karin Tebbe, Ursula Timann and Thomas Eser et al., Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868, vol. 1, Meister, Werke, Marken (Nuremberg, 2007), p. 97, no. 168.10, figs. 230-231.
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