Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Basin portable shrine

Basin portable shrine
Paris, France, between 1320 and 1340
Silver gilt, translucent enamel (blue, green, yellow, pink, purple), pearls and gems.
open wings: 10 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (260 x 120 mm); base: 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches (110 x 110 mm); open: 10 x 4 7/8 inches (254 x 124 mm)
AZ005
Provenance
Thomas Basin (1402-1491); Count Ferdinand Wolff-Metternich, 1855-1919, Schloss Gracht, Euskirchen; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan through Jacques Seligmann, May 1911.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on base, "gift of Thomas Basin, archbishop of Caesarea, who died on 30 December 1491".
Classification
Department