Hanging Reliquary
Unidentified
third quarter of 12th century
Medium/TechniqueVernis brun and gilding on copper over wooden core; cabochons and rock crystal
Dimensions16.9 x 10.6 x 3.7 cm (6 5/8 x 4 3/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund
Accession number49.480
On View
On viewClassificationsEnamels
Collections
Yvonne J. Markowitz, “Hanging Reliquary” in Artful Adornments: Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Yvonne J. Markowitz (Boston: MFA Publications, 2011), 21.
ProvenanceA public sale at Croissy, France. 1927, A. Gilbert collection; November 29 - December 1, 1927, posthumous Gilbert sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 28. 1931, Alfred Rütschi, Zürich; September 5, 1931, Rütschi sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, lot 44, possibly to Theodor Fischer, Lucerne (?) [see note 1]; August 31, 1938, sold by Fischer to the Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. P15066); May 12, 1949, Brummer sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, lot 369, to the MFA for $350. (Accession Date: May 12, 1949)NOTES:
[1] This is conjectural, based upon the fact that the object was auctioned at the Galerie Fischer, and sold seven years later by Fischer to Brummer.
mid-19th century
Unidentified
mid-12th century