About This Artwork

German, Rhineland, or French, Troyes (?)

Plaque with Aaron, 1160/80

Gilded copper, champlevé enamel
6.2 x 3.7 cm (2 7/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Inscribed: "Aaron".
Buckingham Fund, 1943.76

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, Enamel: An Historic Survey to the Present Day, March 16, 1954 - June 21, 1954.

Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, October 2, 1985-January 5, 1986.

Publication History

Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Die Sammlung Richard von Kaufmann Berlin, vol. 3 (Berlin, 1917), no. 469, pl. 72.

Dorothy Odenheimer, “Medieval and Modern Treasures in Enamel,” Chicago Sun (October 18, 1942).

Meyric. R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection, (Chicago, 1945), p. 66, no. 25.

William D. Wixom, Treasures of Medieval France (Cleveland, 1976) p. 96.

Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosogre, "Ouevres d'art Mosan au Musée de l'Ermitage à Leningrad," Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art 44 (1975), pp. 85-107.

Philippe Verdier, "Emaux Mosans et Rheno-Mosans dans les collections des Etats-Unis," Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art 45 (1975), pp. 3-84, here 53-55.

Christina Nielsen, ed. Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30,2 (2004), p. 32, no. 14.

Ownership History

Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin, before 1917 [sold, Berlin, 12 December 1917, lot 470]. Harry Fuld (b. 1879 - d. 1932), Frankfurt; by descent to his widow, Lucie Mayer-Fuld (d. 1966), Frankfurt, Berlin, and New York, 1932-1942 [according to incoming shipping receipt in curatorial file]; on loan to museum starting October 17, 1942 [according to incoming receipt in Registrar's file]; sold, through Raphael Stora, to the Art Institute, 1942 [according to incoming shipping receipt, mentioned above].