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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