23 décembre 2015

Vitaldi Babani, lamé flapper dress, c.1925

Vitaldi Babani (French, born Middle East, active 1895–1940), Evening dress, ca. 1925, silk, metal thread. Gift of Mrs. Aline Bernstein, 1945 (C.I.45.91.2) © 2000–2015 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Amulet of a knight with Mother of God and Christ the Judge, 1320 - 1330, Oberrhein. Silver, embossed and engraved, with translucent depth slice melting, 7.6 cm. Ident.Nr. F 760. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Saturia Linke. The round silver disc is engraved on both sides with multicolored representations, mostly translucent melting. The edge is bubbled at the outer bead, its inner webs, which are also... [Lire la suite]

Large candy bowl with pomegranates from the Lünebuerger Council Silver, before 1535, Lüneburg. Silver, gold, 6.3 x 25.9 cm. Ident.Nr. 1874.399. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Karen Bartsch. Rand manufactured separately and as the center hump gilded outside unvergoldet. Marks in the center of the bottom. - Enamel damage. Flat dish on three lifelike designed, serving as feet pomegranates... [Lire la suite]

Deckelpokal Elector Cup from the Lüneburg Council Silver, attributed to Heinrich Folman, 1570, Lüneburg. Silver, wrought, cast, gilded and painted, 60 x 21.7 cm. Ident.Nr. 1874.379. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Karen Bartsch. Balusters, drums, rings, figures, heads, oval reliefs and heraldic shield cast and roughly chased. (Receive only remnants) Except for parts of the scrollwork ornament, which are... [Lire la suite]

Deckelpokal "Lizards Cup from the Lüneburg Council Silver", Luleff Meyer, 1599 or earlier, Lüneburg. Silver, wrought, cast, z. T. gilded and painted, 38 x 12,5 cm. Ident.Nr. 1874.383. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Karen Bartsch. Upper part of the foot, shank, cover and knob - cast plants and animals - from nature. Relief decoration with punched base. Painted casts from nature and unvergoldete... [Lire la suite]

Plaque "Lamentation du Christ", vers 1500, Limoges. Émail peint sur cuivre, 32.6 x 38. Ident.Nr. 1898.219. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Saturia Linke. The focus of the presentation Maria sitting under the cross, his hands plaintively folded across his chest. You can look on the face of her son, whose rigid body lying on her lap.John on the left holds the head of Christ crowned with thorns in a... [Lire la suite]

Coupe "Kirchenväterschale aus dem Lüneburger Ratssilber", Cord Hagen, 1476, Lüneburg. Silver, wrought, cast, z. T. gilded, 16.5 x 32 cm. Ident.Nr. 1874.393. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Karen Bartsch. Technically corresponding to Inv. No. 1874.394, execution but less carefully. Mark on the miter of Ambrose. Large indentation in the shell. Email the medallion partially lost. In... [Lire la suite]

Fußbecher with scenes from Genesis, c.1420, Venice. Blue glass, blow-molded, painted enamel, 19.5 cm. Ident.Nr. 1935.51. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Arne Psille. his vessel of precious cobalt blue glass had probably originally a lid and served as a chalice. The revolving scenes take on this use relation: the value represented in the Sacrifice of Christ's sacrificial death is considered an atonement... [Lire la suite]

Eight beads of a rosary fragmentary, Early 16th century, Italy (?). Bronze, gilt, champlevé, 17 x 1,7 cm. Ident.Nr. F 3477. Kunstgewerbemuseum © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Foto Saturia Linke. The beads formed in the form of six-sided prisms with Eckstegen originally belonged to a rosary, as it is obtained, for example, to a modern Madonna procession in the parish church in Ueberstorf (CH, Canton of Fribourg). The individual parts... [Lire la suite]