Eucharistic Dove
Limoges
(France)
first half of the 13th century
Object PlaceLimoges, France
Medium/TechniqueChamplevé enamel and gilding on copper
DimensionsOverall: 17.7 x 22 x 8.5cm (6 15/16 x 8 11/16 x 3 3/8in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund
Accession number49.1075
On View
On viewClassificationsEnamels
Collections
ProvenanceCampe collection (perhaps Julius Campe, Hamburg?) [see note 1]. By 1913, Léonce Alexandre Rosenberg (b. 1877 - d. 1947), Paris; June 12, 1924, Rosenberg sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 59. 1946, Octave Pincot, Paris; November 25, 1946, Pincot sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 47. 1949, Arthur Goldschmidt, London; sold by Goldschmidt to Raphael Stora, New York (stock no. 1108); 1949, sold by Stora to the MFA for $6000. (Accession Date: October 13, 1949)
NOTES:
[1] See the "Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance" (Paris, Jacques Seligmann, 1913), pp. 109-110, cat. no. 210, which discusses a comparable object. The catalogue entry mentions a Eucharistic dove formerly in the Campe collection, which at that time was with Mr. Rosenberg; presumably this refers to the MFA object.
NOTES:
[1] See the "Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance" (Paris, Jacques Seligmann, 1913), pp. 109-110, cat. no. 210, which discusses a comparable object. The catalogue entry mentions a Eucharistic dove formerly in the Campe collection, which at that time was with Mr. Rosenberg; presumably this refers to the MFA object.
