Decorative panel
Decorative panel

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Decorative panel,

12th century

German, Rhenish
y1949-122
These border strips once decorated a large reliquary, perhaps in the shape of a sarcophagus. They are significant for the excellent quality of the enamel, and for the artist's success in creating subtle color harmonies. This ornament also reflects the new fashion for the color blue in the twelfth century, after millennia of domination by red, black, and green.

Information

Title
Decorative panel
Dates

12th century

Medium
Gilt copper and champlevé enamel
Dimensions
2.7 × 25.9 × 0.4 cm (1 1/16 × 10 3/16 × 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Gordon McCormick, Class of 1917
Object Number
y1949-122
Place Made

Europe, Germany, Rhineland

Marks/Labels/Seals
Assembly mark on back: two parallel lines on back in rocker technique which appears under enamel.
Culture
German
Type
metalwork
Materials
champlevé, copper
Subject
rosettes, borders (ornament areas), champlevé, green (color), dark bluish green, light blue, medium blue, dark blue, white (color), enamel

Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler, Berlin (1770-1846); sold in 1835 to the Prussian state, integrated into the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer (until its liquidation in 1875); transferred to the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Applied Art Museum]) Berlin, inv. K 4213e [1]; exchanged with 13 other enamels for a monstrance with a relic of St. Blaise from the Guelph Treasure (inv. W 44) via J. Rosenbaum Antiquitäten, Frankfurt am Main, May 14, 1937; sold to S. & R. Rosenberg, Ltd., London by May 18, 1937; sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York, May 27, 1941; sold to Joseph Brummer Galleries, New York, September 4, 1941; Joseph Brummer Estate Sale [Part II], Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 14, 1949, Lot 726 [set of three enamels]; Purchase by Princeton University Art Museum

[1] From 1921 the Kunstgewerbemuseum was housed in the Stadtschloss [City Palace] and known as the Schlossmuseum

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