Rosewater Ewer and Basin

1603/1609

Franz Dotte, active c. 1595-1600
Germany, Nuremberg

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

Artist: Franz Dotte
Title: Rosewater Ewer and Basin
Place: Nuremberg (Object made in)
Date: 1591–1601
Medium: Silver gilt
Dimensions: 36.8 × 84.3 cm (14 1/2 × 19 in.)
Credit Line: Buckingham Fund
Reference Number: 1947.477a-b
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E. Alfred Jones, Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq. (London, 1908) p. 20.
Meyric R. Rogers, Early Silver from the Morgan Collection, The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 42, 5 (September 1948), pp. 59-64, here 62, figs. 5A-B..
Chicago Art Institute Masterpiece of the Month. “Ewer and Rosewater Dish, by Franz Dotte, German, ca. 1600, Buckingham Collection.” (July 1, 1951).
Hugh Tait, Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, vol. 2: The Silver Plate (London, 1988), p. 254, fig. 262-63, under no. 46-47..
Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, European Decorative Arts in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), pp. 20, 23, 25 (ill.).
Karin Tebbe, Ursula Timann and Thomas Eser et al., Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1541-1868, vol. 1, Meister, Werke, Marken (Nuremberg, 2007), p. 97, no. 168.10, figs. 230-231.

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths Work of European Origin, 1901, p. 105, pl. 81.
Worcester Art Museum, The Virtuoso Craftsman: Northern European Design in the Sixteenth Century, 27 March – 25 May 1969, no. 68.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, March 2 – June 14, 1987.

Charles Wertheimer; Viscount Clifden, Co. Kilkenny; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York, by 1908 [see Jones, 1908, p. 20]; estate of J. P. Morgan [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 30, 31-November 1, 1947, see Rogers 1948, p. 62].

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