Alfred André

French, 1839 - 1919

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French goldsmith

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Blue floral patterns adorn this bulb-shaped white flask made of imitation porcelain. The round opening at the top of the flask has a low lip. The rounded vessel tapers from wide shoulders to a narrower flared foot at the bottom. There are two handles on either side of the top opening and a short spout near the rim directly between them. The rim is decorated with dots set within squares, and the handles are painted with blue stripes.
Medici Porcelain Factory, Flask, c. 1575/1587, or slightly later, imitation porcelain (a version of soft-paste porcelain), Widener Collection, 1942.9.354

Flask

Medici Porcelain Factory · c. 1575/1587, or slightly later · imitation porcelain (a version of soft-paste porcelain) ·  Accession ID  1942.9.354

Jean I Penicaud, Plaque with the Last Supper, c. 1530, enamel painted on copper, Widener Collection, 1942.9.289

Plaque with the Last Supper

Jean I Penicaud · c. 1530 · enamel painted on copper ·  Accession ID  1942.9.289

Bibliography

1877

  • Bonnaffé, Edmond. "Le coffret de l'Escurial." L'art 43 (1877): 165-174.

1890

  • Spitzer, Frédéric. La Collection Spitzer. Intro. by Eugène Müntz. 6 vols. Paris, 1890-1892.

1893

  • Catalogue des objets d'art de haute curiosité...composant l'importante et précieuse collection Spitzer. Paris, 1893.

1904

  • Clouzot, Henri. "Le maître potier de Saint-Porchaire." La Revue de l'Art 16 (1904): 357-371.

1968

  • Lesley, Parker. Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection. Baltimore, 1968.

1979

  • Hackenbroch, Yvonne. Renaissance Jewellery. London and Munich, 1979.

  • Kris, Ernst. Meister und Meisterwerke der Steinschneide-kunst in der italienischen Renaissance. 2 vols. 1929. Reprint. Vienna, 1979.

  • Truman, Charles. "Reinhold Vasters--'the Last of the Goldsmiths'?" The Connoisseur 200 (1979): 154-161.

1980

  • Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance, 1500-1630. Exh. cat. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980.

1981

  • Newman, Harold. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewellry. London, 1981.

1984

  • The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1984.

1986

  • Hackenbroch, Yvonne. "Reinhold Vasters, Goldsmith." Journal of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 19-20 (1986): 163-268.

1993

  • Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 282-287.