Reliquary bust of Saint Thekla, anonymous, c. 1325 - c. 1350

Identification

Title(s)

Reliquary bust of Saint Thekla
Reliekbuste van de H. Thekla

Object type

reliquary

Object number

BK-16997

Description

Reliekbuste van verguld zilver en email, voorstellende de heilige Thekla. Het haar is aan de achterzijde in twee vlechten verdeeld. Om de hals, langs de rand van het gewaad, een ketting met rood email en, aan de voorzijde, een wapenschild. Bruin geëmailleerde ogen tegen blank-zilveren oogbol. Van de haarband zijn enkele resten over. Op een basis van verguld koper.

Creation

Artist

silversmith: anonymous

Place

Straatsburg (Frankrijk)

Dating

c. 1290 - c. 1300 and/or c. 1325 - c. 1350

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

gild

Measurements

height 32.2 cm × width 25.3 cm × depth c. 21.5 cm

Subject

What

the virgin martyr Thecla of Iconium; possible attributes: bear, (ball of) flames, lion, pillar, serpents

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.;...; from Prince Alexander Petrovich Basilevsky (1829-85), Paris, frs 5,500,000, with the rest of his collection en bloc, to Tsar Alexander III of Russia, for the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 1884;{Kryzanovskaya 1990, p. 152.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 188, no. Si.1.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

The treasury of Basel Cathedral, Julien Chapuis, Timothy Husband, p. 31-32, 110-111, cat.nr. 40
Der Basler Münsterschatz [ : 1 2001], Brigitte Meles, cat.nr. 15
Goldschmiedekunst der Gotik in Mitteleuropa, Johann Michael Fritz, p. 214, cat.nr. 215
Oberrheinische Goldschmiedekunst im Hochmittelalter, Hans-Jörgen Heuser, p. 102
Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten : [Sammlung Mannheimer], p. 29, cat.nr. Taf.37
Katalog der Sammlung F[ritz] M[annheimer], P.188, cat.nr. Si.1
Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Basel-Stadt [ : 1 1932], C.H. Baer, Rudolf F. Burckhardt, August Huber, Hans Koegler, Thomas Lutz, François Maurer, Brigitte Meles, Martin Möhle, Anne Nagel, R. Riggenbach, P. Roth, cat.nr. 11
Collection Basilewsky : catalogue raisonné précédé d'un essai sur les arts industriels du Ier au XVIe siècle, A. Basilewsky, Alfred Darcel, cat.nr. 154
Het borstbeeld van de Heilige Thekla
Ekaterina Nekrasova-Shedrinksy, Il destino delle opere della collezione Basilewsky, in: 'L'Ermitage di Basilewsky. Il collezionista di meraviglie', Torino 2013, pp. 32-41, p. 39.
Marie-Claire Berkemeier en Günther Mattern, 'Das Wappen der von Hertenstein auf dem Büstenreliquiar der hl. Thekla?', Archivum Heraldicum : Archives Héraldiques Suisses (2003) nr. 1, p. 75-77.
Marie-Claire Berkemeier-Favre, 'Der Basler Münsterschatz: kleine Nachlese', Jahresbericht Historisches Museum Basel (2002), p. 21, afb. 7-8.
E. de Jongh, 'Een heilig leeg hoofd', Openbaar Kunstbezit, Kunstschrift 3 (2000), p. 32-34.
B. Falk, 'Bildnisreliquiare : Zur Entstehung und Entwicklung der metallenen Kopf-, Büsten- und Halbfigurenreliquiare im Mittelalter', Aachener Kunstblätter 59 (1991/93), nr. 55, p. 213-1214.
A. Reinle, Die Ausstattung deutscher Kirchen im Mittelalter: Eine Einführung, Darmstadt, 1988, p. 134.
Verslag van de hoofd-directeur over het jaar 1953, 's-Gravenhage, 1954, p. 43.
Uitgebreide provenance in: J. Chapuis, The treasury of Basel Cathedral, New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 2001, nr. 40.

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