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)
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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".
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