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Quatrefoil Plaque of Christ's Descent into Limbo
Quatrefoil Plaque of Christ's Descent into Limbo

Quatrefoil Plaque of Christ's Descent into Limbo

Unidentified
late 14th century (?)
Object PlaceUpper Rhineland ?
Medium/TechniqueBasse-taille enamel and gilding on silver
Dimensions8.6 x 8.1 cm (3 3/8 x 3 3/16 in.)
Credit Line1948 Purchase Fund
Accession number48.259
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsEnamels
Collections
Provenance1906, D. Schevitch, Paris; April 4-7, 1906, Schevitch sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 79. Acquired from Seligmann and Co. by Otto H. Kahn (b. 1867 - d. 1934), New York [see note 1]; 1934, to the Mogmar Art Foundation [see note 2]; October 12, 1943, sold by Addie Wolff (Mrs. Otto H.) Kahn (d. 1949), New York, to the Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. N5600); 1948, sold by Brummer to the MFA for $2000. (Accession Date: March 11, 1948)

NOTES:
[1] According to an inventory of the Mogmar Art Foundation (June 26, 1934) on file at the Getty Research Institute (Duveen Brothers Records, Box 472), cat. no. MAF 31B. At that time it was being kept by Duveen, New York. The Mogmar Art Foundation was a private corporation that kept parts of Kahn's art collection after his death.