id: 125586 accession number: 1947.507 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.507 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:53.632000 Twelve Medallions Mounted as a Necklace, c. 1400. France, Paris, late 14th-early 15th century. Enameled gold, precious stones, and pearls; some later additions with modern chain; diameter: 4.5 x 1.6 cm (1 3/4 x 5/8 in.); part 1: 70.9 cm (27 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.507 title: Twelve Medallions Mounted as a Necklace title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1400 creation date earliest: 1395 creation date latest: 1405 current location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Paris, late 14th-early 15th century technique: enameled gold, precious stones, and pearls; some later additions with modern chain department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 4.5 x 1.6 cm (1 3/4 x 5/8 in.); Part 1: 70.9 cm (27 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Masterpieces of Flemish Art: Van Eyck to Bosch opening date: 1960-06-26T04:00:00 Masterpieces of Flemish Art: Van Eyck to Bosch. Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Bruges, Belgium (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 26-September 11, 1960); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (co-organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1960). title: Masterpieces of Art opening date: 1962-04-21T05:00:00 Masterpieces of Art. Century 21 Exposition, Seattle, WA (organizer) (April 21-September 4, 1962). title: The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400 opening date: 1962-10-23T04:00:00 The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 23-December 2, 1962). title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). title: The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages opening date: 1975-03-28T04:00:00 The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 28-June 16, 1975). title: Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs opening date: 1982-11-02T05:00:00 Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 1982-March 20, 1983). title: Paris 1400. les arts sous Charles VI opening date: 2004-03-22T00:00:00 Paris 1400. les arts sous Charles VI. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (organizer) (March 22-July 19, 2004). title: Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419) opening date: 2004-05-27T00:00:00 Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). title: The Art of Illumination: The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry opening date: 2010-03-01T00:00:00 The Art of Illumination: The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 1-June 13, 2010). title: Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain opening date: 2016-10-09T00:00:00 Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9, 2016-February 26, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * French Gothic Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI: The Detroit Institute of Art, (November 16 - December 6, 1928). * Exhibition of Gold, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 30, 1947-January 11, 1948). * Le Siècle des Pritifs Flamands (Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Art and Civilization), Museé Communal des Beaux-Arts, Bruges (26 June-11 September 1960); The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit MI (October-December 1960). * Masterpieces of Art, Seattle World's Fair Century 21 Exposition, Seattle Washington (April 21-September 4, 1962). * The International Style, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (October 23 - December 2, 1962). * The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, New York (Nov. 16, 1974-Jan. 12, 1975). --- PROVENANCE (G. J. Demotte, New York, NY, sold to Joseph Brummer) date: ?-1936 footnotes: citations: (Joseph Brummer, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1936-1947 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1947- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: These medallions, which have loops on the backs, must have originally been sewn onto a garment or, more likely, a woman’s headpiece. In spite of the modern chain to which they are now attached, the medallions are unique items of feminine apparel from around 1400. Such items would have been well known at the courts of the Valois in Paris, Bourges, and Dijon. The central medallion with a “white lady” is enameled “in the round”––a new Parisian technique for enameling irregular or three-dimensional surfaces. Such white lady medallions are described in inventories of the period --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Detroit Institute of Arts. The Seventh Loan Exhibition; French Gothic Art of the 13th to 15th Century. Nov. 16 to Dec. 5, 1928. [Detroit]: Institute of Arts, 1928. page number: no. 75 url: La Perle (September 10, 1928). page number: url: Art News (December 1, 1928). page number: p. 18 url: The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. page number: P13127 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/40533/rec/1 Milliken, William M. "Exhibition of Gold." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 9 (1947). page number: p. 228 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141408 Milliken, William M. "The Art of the Goldsmith." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 6, no. 4 (1948). page number: p. 321, fig. 6 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/426958 Steingräber, Erich and Theodor Müller. "Die Französische Goldemailplastik um 1400" Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenen Kunst V (1954). page number: p. 76, no. 26, fig. 66 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 177 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n43 Milliken, William M. "Early Byzantine Silver." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 3 (1958) page number: p. 57 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265 Detroit Institute of Arts, and Stedelijk Museum van Schoone Kunsten (Bruges). Le siecle des primitifs flamands: exposition organisee par L'Administration communale de Bruges et The Detroit Institute of arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA, au Musee communal des beaux-arts (Musee Groeninge) 26 Juin-11 septembre 1960. Bruges: Presses Saint-Augustin, 1960. page number: no. 113 url: Detroit Institute of Arts. Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Art and Civilization. Catalogue of the Exhibition Masterpieces of Flemish Art: Van Eyck to Bosch. 1960. page number: no. 9 url: Century 21 Exposition, and William Mathewson Milliken. Masterpieces of Art: Fine Arts Pavilion, April 21 to September 4, 1962 : Catalogue : Seattle World's Fair, April 21 to October 21, 1962. [Seattle, Wash.]: Century 21 Expositions, 1962. page number: pp. 32-3, no. 9 url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.). The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962, / B. [Baltimore, Md.]: Walters Art Gallery, 1962. page number: no. 127 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n86 Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: pp. 252-3, 376, cat. no. VI-19 url: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n279 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n86 Angéla Héjj-Détári, "Rekonstruktion der gotischen Prunkette einer ungarischen königen" Actes du XXII° Congès international d'Histoire de l'Art, vol. II (Budapest, 1969). page number: p. 644, fig. 6 url: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages. New York: Dutton, 1975. page number: p. 88, cat. 95 url: De Winter, Patrick M. The Patronage of Philippe Le Hardi, Duke of Burgundy, 1364-1404. 1976. page number: p. 978, no. 101 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 70 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n90 Prevenier, Walter, Willem Pieter Blockmans, An Blockmans-Delva, and Richard Vaughan. The Burgundian Netherlands. Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1985. page number: pp. 90-1, no. 77 url: De Winter, Patrick M. La bibliothèque de Philippe le Hardi, duc de Bourgogne (1364-1404): étude sur les manuscrits à peintures d'une collection princière à l'époque du "style gothique international". Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1985. page number: p. 97, 107, fig. 191 url: Giusti, Paola, "Smaltri per le Corti," Casa Vogue Antiques, no. 3 (March 1989). page number: p. 66 url: Evans, Joan. A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870. New York: Dover, 1989. page number: p. 79, pl. 33a url: Lightbown, R. W. Mediaeval European Jewellery: With a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum. [London]: Published by the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1992. page number: p. 169, fig. 82 url: Stanbury, Sarah. Pearl. Kalamazoo, Mich: Published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications, 2001. page number: p. viii url: Fliegel, Stephen N., Sophie Jugie, and Virginie Barthélémy. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419 : Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Dijon, May 28-September 15, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005. [Dijon]: Musée des beaux-arts, 2004. page number: p. 48, Cat. no. 13 url: Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1400: les arts sous Charles VI. [Paris]: Fayard, 2004. page number: p. 164, no. 86 url: "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963). page number: no. 35, p. 175 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 Fliegel, Stephen. "Patronage and the Burgundian Court, 1364-1419" The Magazine Antiques (October 2004). page number: p. 145, pls. V-Va url: Taburet-Delahaye, Elisabeth. "L'eclat nouveau de l'orfevrerie," Dossier de l'Art, 107 (June 2004). page number: p. 34-5 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., "Piety and Power", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 08, October 2004 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: 4-5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-08/page/n3 Stuard, Susan Mosher. Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. page number: plate 7 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: pp. 200-01, no. 73 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: p. 210, cat. no. 76 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.507/1947.507_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.507/1947.507_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.507/1947.507_full.tif