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Limoges Figure of St. Barontius

Limoges Figure of St. Barontius

Artist/Maker
Dateca. 1200
place madePistoia, Italy, Europe
MediumGilded copper, enamel, and blue glass
DimensionsOverall: 18 1/2 × 5 × 1 7/8 in. (47 × 12.7 × 4.8 cm)
Overall (on mount): 19 1/2 × 10 × 2 1/4 in. (49.5 × 25.4 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1946.44
Status
Not on view
ProvenanceAbbaye de Grandmont, Parish of St. Sylvestre, Haute Vienne, France. (Unidentified sale, probably in Italy, between 1875 and 1895); Baron A. Schickler de Pourtales, Paris, by 1900. (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc, New York); purchased 1946 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
Exposition Universelle de 1900
  • Exposition Universelle de 1900, Paris ( 1900 - 1900 )
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance
  • Chez Jacques Seligman, ancien Hotel de Sagan, Paris, France ( 1913 - 1913 )
Arts of the Middle Ages
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (February 17, 1940 - March 24, 1940 )
An American University Collection: Works of Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
  • Kenwood House, London (May 3, 1962 - October 30, 1962 )
Treasures from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (July 21, 1966 - September 11, 1966 )
Les Emaux de Limoges
  • Musée de Louvre, Paris (October 23, 1995 - January 23, 1996 )
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (March 5, 1996 - June 16, 1996 )
Collections
  • European
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