About This Artwork

Northern European

Casting Bottle, probably late 19th century

Gold, rock crystal, enamels, rubies, emeralds, and pearls.
5.6 x 4.2 cm (2 3/16 x 1 11/16 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.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, Enamels: The XII to the XVI Century, February 2-March 2, 1970, 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 1958 [according to Detroit, p. 142]; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 125]; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.




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