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Chandelier with Statuette of the Virgin

second half of 15th century (?)
Object PlaceFlanders
Medium/TechniqueIron and brass and latten (various parts: 72.1-76.7% copper, 20.7-27.4% zinc, trace-2.2% lead, up to 1.3% tin)
Dimensions108 x 89 cm (42 1/2 x 35 1/16 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number68.616
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMetalwork
Collections
ProvenancePrivate collection, Genoa [see note 1]. By 1966, F. Ildebrando Bossi, Genoa; 1968, sold by Bossi to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1968)

NOTES:
[1] In his curatorial recommendation for its purchase (October 9, 1968) Hanns Swarzenski noted that the chandelier "comes from a Palace in Genoa." Bossi presumably acquired it from this Genoese collection.
about 1500 or 17th century
14th century
15th–early 16th century (?)
last third of 12th–first third of 13th century
late 14th–15th century
19th–20th century
mid-14th century
late 13th–14th century