Finial
mid-13th century
Object PlaceGermany
Medium/TechniqueGilding on silver-plated copper with inlays of niello on silver (94.6% silver, 4% copper, .4% gold, 1% lead)
Dimensions6.1 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund
Accession number49.465
On View
Not on viewClassificationsMetalwork
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1924, Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael (b. 1859 - d. 1926), Skirling House, Lanarkshire, Scotland; June 10, 1926, Carmichael sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 396. Henri Daguerre, Paris. 1937, Galerie Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris; July 8, 1937, sold by Brimo de Laroussilhe to the Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. P14019); April 21, 1949, Brummer sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, lot 292, to the MFA for $400. (Accession Date: May 12, 1949)
late 15th–early 16th century
late 15th century (?)
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18th century
about 1720
about 1700–10
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latter half of 18th to first half of 19th century
late 18th to early 19th century
late 17th–early 18th century