Art Institute of Chicago
Gorget
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- Date
- 1590/1600
- Medium
- Steel, gilding, brass, translucent enamel, and leather
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 106378
Intended to protect the neck, by the late 16th century the gorget had also become a symbol of rank, as men wore the pieces in civilian contexts as a fashionable allusion to military prowess or status. This example is painted with red and black translucent glass enamel, a rare and fragile decoration that has all but shattered off the fine interlace pattern.
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- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Provenance
- Léopold Double (1812-1881) before 1881; sold Double Collection, Paris, 31 May 1881, lot 224, ill. Possibly Sigismund Bardac, Paris. S.E. Kennedy by March 1918; sold Christie, Manson and Woods (London), 18 March 1918, lot 95, ill. George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939); transferred to the George F. Harding Museum; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
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- Object type
- AAT300209266
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