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Lot Description

A Limoges Champlevé and Gilt-Copper Fragment of a Rectangular Plaque

Circa Late 12th Century A.D.

with two Apostles under an arcade against a vermiculé ground.

Height 4 3/8 inches (11.1 cm).

Property from The Brummer Collection from Drs. John and Pat Laszlo, Atlanta, Georgia

Provenance:
Frédéric Engel-Gros (1843-1918), Château de Ripaille, France, after 1903.
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Engel-Gros sale, 30 May-1 June 1921, no. 133.
Octave Pincot Collection, prior to 1946.
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Pincot Sale, 25 November 25 1946, pl. III.
Art Market (E. Ratton), Paris, 1953.
Ernest Brummer (1891-1964), Paris & New York.
Ella Bache Brummer, New York, 1964-1999; thence by descent to her nephew, Dr. John Laszlo, Atlanta, Georgia.

Published:
P. Ganz, L'oeuvre d'un amateur d'art, la collection de Monsieur F. Engel-Gros; catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1925, vol. II, pl. 136, fig. b. and vol. I, p. 412.
Galerie Koller and Spink & Son, Zurich, The Ernest Brummer Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Art, Vol. I, 16-19 October 1979, no. 227 (illus.).

Condition Report

Inspected under UV light and 10x loupe. Some notable losses to enamel. Areas of azur and other patination to copper. Surface scratched and weathered. Overall in fine and attractive condition. See additional images.

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