Pomander

c. 1625-c. 1675

German or Dutch

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Pomander
Place: Netherlands (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1625–1675
Medium: Silver gilt and enamel
Dimensions: 4.8 × 2.3 cm (1 7/8 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1992.517
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Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 76-77 and 97, no. 38.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 68.

Henry George Charles Lascelles, the Sixth Earl of Harewood (d. 1947) [according to Gutman sale, p. 14]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962, his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, lot 26; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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