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Bowl

second half of 14th–first third of 15th century
Object PlaceDijon, France
Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance
Medium/TechniqueSilver and gilded silver (bowl: 94.4% silver, 3.9% copper, .9% gold, .8% lead)
DimensionsOverall: 16.8 x 4.4cm (6 5/8 x 1 3/4in.)
Other (diameter): 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line1948 Purchase Fund
Accession number48.264
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMetalwork
Collections
InscriptionsEngraved on base: coat-of-arms of the Valois duke of Burgundy with Lion of Flanders on reverse. Armorial belonged to John the Fearless and Phillip the Good while they were duke of Burgundy and count of Flanders between about 21 March 1405 and 8 October 1430.ProvenanceBy 1901, Montagu Samuel, 1st Baron Swaythling (b. 1832 - d. 1911), London; May 6-7, 1924, Swaythling sale, Christie's, London, lot 68. By 1930, William Randolph Hearst (b. 1863 - d. 1951), New York [see note 1]; from Hearst to the International Studio Art Corporation, New York [see note 2]; October 24, 1940, sold by the International Studio Art Corporation to the Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. N4728); 1948, sold by the Brummer Gallery to the MFA for $3,000. (Accession Date: March 11, 1948)

NOTES:
[1] E. Alfred Jones, "Some Old Foreign Silver in the Collection of Mr. William Randolph Hearst," Connoisseur 18 (1930): 220-221. [2] The International Studio Art Corporation was a Hearst-owned company that had the responsibility of uncrating, cataloguing, storing, and shipping art objects Mr. Hearst had purchased.
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