Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number
17.190.471
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall (Depth x Diameter): 6mm × 46mm (0.6 × 4.6 cm)
Description
Feast of Ahasuerus (Esther 1)
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscription in Gothic letters:
fecit assvervs rex grande convivm [Esther 1:3 - around scene]
[source: Met site]
fecit assvervs rex grande convivm [Esther 1:3 - around scene]
[source: Met site]
Published References
Ellis, Lisa and Suda, Sasha (Eds). (2016). Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, exhibition catalogue, 5 November 2016 - 22 January 2017. Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Ontario. [p. 83]
Émile Molinier. Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim: Tableaux et objects d'art, catalogue précédé d'une introduction. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1904. no. 96, p.42; Williamson, G.C. Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 44, pp. 67-68, pl. XXVI
Émile Molinier. Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim: Tableaux et objects d'art, catalogue précédé d'une introduction. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1904. no. 96, p.42; Williamson, G.C. Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 44, pp. 67-68, pl. XXVI
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 62
Provenance
Provenance
Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne (sold 1906); J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (1906-1917)
Previous Owner(s)
Baron Albert Oppenheim
J. Pierpont Morgan