Object Information

Northern European

Casting Bottle, probably late 19th century

Gold, rock crystal, enamels, rubies, emeralds, and pearls.
Diameter: 4.2 cm (1 11/16 in.)
Height: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.534

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, November 18, 1958 - January 4, 1959, cat. 381.

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1968.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, 1975, cat. 41.

Publication History

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 88-89 and 98, no. 50.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1968 [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 125]. Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, before 1992; given to the Art Institute, 1992.