Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Metalwork

405. Carolingian Reliquary
     Upper Rhine, reconstructed at a later date
     of elements attributed to the eighth century
     Gilt copper, silver, cabochon hardstones,
     and glass pastes
     Height: 5 Vs in. (13 cm)
     Accession number 85 .SE.53

PROVENANCE

Richard von Kauffmann, Berlin; Erich

Lederer, Geneva.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Otto von Falke, Die Sammlung Richard von

Kaufmann (Berlin, 1917), no. 413, pp. 63-64;

"Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ \\ (1986),

no. 219, p. 253, illus.

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406

406. Romanesque Aquamanile
     Lower Saxony (Hildesheim or Magdeburg),
     circa 1220
     Bronze
     Height: 10 % in. (26 cm)
     Accession number 85 .SB.55
     PROVENANCE
     A. Seligmann, Paris; Robert von Hirsch,
     Basel (sold, Sotheby's, London, June 22,
     1978, lot 206); [David Carritt, London];
     Erich Lederer, Geneva.

Europe: X-XTVvv," Arkheohgiia SSSR (1966),

pi. 89; "Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ'14

(1986), no. 219, p. 253, illus.

407. Ewer and Basin
     Augsburg, 1583
     By Abraham Pfleger I
     Parcel-gilt silver with enamel plaques
     and engraving
     Coat of arms of Pαlffy and Fugger families
     on basin, base, and cover of ewer.
     Ewer: Height: 9% in. (25 cm); Basin:
     Diameter: 1 ft. j^7 A in. (50.5 cm)
     Accession number 85.DG.33.1—.2

PROVENANCE

Sold, Christie s, Geneva, November 15,1984,

lot 606; [David, Inc., Vaduz].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ\\ (1986),

no. 220, p. 254, illus.; Handbook 1991,

p. 208, illus.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Otto von Falke and Erich Meyer, Bronze­

gerδte des MitteMters, vol. 1 (Berlin, 1935),

no. 332, p. 53, figs. 309a~b; Vladislav Petro-

vich Darkevich, "Proizvedeniia zapadnogo

khudozhestvennogo remesia ν Vostochnoi

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