Ciborium for the Sacrament

Florentine 15th Century, possibly after a model by Desiderio da Settignano (stem with integral base); Florentine 19th Century (dome, enclosure, base beneath enclosure, finial, bottom plinth)1460s-c.1470 (stem with integral base); probably 1860s-c. 1870 (dome, enclosure, base beneath enclosure); 1870s (finial, bottom plinth)

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States

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Title: Ciborium for the Sacrament
Creator: Florentine 15th Century, possibly after a model by Desiderio da Settignano (stem with integral base); Florentine 19th Century (dome, enclosure, base beneath enclosure, finial, bottom plinth)
Date Created: 1460s-c.1470 (stem with integral base); probably 1860s-c. 1870 (dome, enclosure, base beneath enclosure); 1870s (finial, bottom plinth)
Physical Dimensions: overall: 322.1 × 80.8 × 69.9 cm, (126 13/16 × 31 13/16 × 27 1/2 in.), 2357 lb. gross weight (base): 1217 lb. gross weight (tabernacle): 621 lb. gross weight (dome): 411 lb. gross weight (finial): 108 lb.
Provenance: S. Pier Maggiore, Florence, until 1783, when the church partially collapsed. A marble worker's shop in Piazza della Madonna, Florence. (Tito Gagliardi, via della Scala, Florence); sold c. 1880 to Nathaniel de Rothschild [1836-1905], Vienna;[1] his nephew, Baron Alphons de Rothschild [1878-1942], Vienna;[2] his widow, Baroness Clarice de Rothschild [1894-1967]; sold 1951 through (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York) to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA. [1] Walter and Elisabeth Paatz, _Die Kirchen von Florenz: ein kunstgeschichtliches Handbook_, 6 vols., Frankfurt am Main, 1940- : 4(1952):654 n. 55. [2] This object appears to have been part of the Vienna collection of Alphons de Rothschild that was confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 and stored at the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna. Its location was published in 1942 as the storeroom of the Kunsthistoriches Museum by Leo Planiscig, _Desiderio da Settignano_, Vienna, 1942: 22. It was returned to the Rothschilds by 1951 when it was acquired by the Kress Foundation from the Baroness de Rothschild; see Kress records in NGA curatorial files.
Medium: marble

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