Ewer
maker
Unknown
Datelate 15th century
Place MadeFlanders, Belgium, Europe
MediumCopper alloy
Dimensions60.5 cm (23 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsVessels
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM19e2
eMuseum ID716832
Previous Number682
EmbARK ObjectID14615
TMS Source ID3347
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesExposition rétrospective de l'art français au Trocadéro. Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 à Paris. Exh. cat. (Paris, 1889), p. 31, no. 237. (as French, 15th century)
Galerie Georges Petit. Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de la Renaissance: tableaux, tapisseries composant la collection de M. Émile Gavet (Paris, May 31-June 9, 1897), pp. 85-86, lot 306. (as "Coquemard," Flemish, 15th century)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 149.
Alan Chong. "Émile Gavet: Patron, Collector, Dealer" in Virginia Brilliant (ed.). Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection. Exh. cat. (Sarasota, FL: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Newport: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 2009), pp. 6, 7 fig. 4, 11, 20 n. 42. (as copper alloy, dating to the late 15th century?)
Galerie Georges Petit. Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de la Renaissance: tableaux, tapisseries composant la collection de M. Émile Gavet (Paris, May 31-June 9, 1897), pp. 85-86, lot 306. (as "Coquemard," Flemish, 15th century)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 149.
Alan Chong. "Émile Gavet: Patron, Collector, Dealer" in Virginia Brilliant (ed.). Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection. Exh. cat. (Sarasota, FL: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Newport: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 2009), pp. 6, 7 fig. 4, 11, 20 n. 42. (as copper alloy, dating to the late 15th century?)
ProvenanceNotesCollection of Émile Gavet (1830–1904) by 1889.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Gavet sale at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris for 14,000 francs on 4 June 1897, lot 306, through Fernand Robert, her regular agent in Paris. (as Flemish, 15th century)
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Gavet sale at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris for 14,000 francs on 4 June 1897, lot 306, through Fernand Robert, her regular agent in Paris. (as Flemish, 15th century)
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