French, Limoges, circa 1200-1220

Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, Suzdal, Russia, before 1683 (the year it was mentioned in the treasure inventory);

Where discovered circa 1890 during the demolition of an annex;

Imperial Historical Museum, Moscow, from 1893 (after 1918, State Historical Museum);

By repute, sold in a sale of Soviet government art objects in Berlin, 1930s;

With Saemy Rosenberg, Amsterdam;

By whom sold, Amsterdam, 20 April 1935;

Where acquired by Oscar Bondy (1870-1944), Vienna;

From whom confiscated by the Nazi authorities in 1939 (Hostientaube, inv. no. 162);

By whom transferred to the ‘Sonderauftrag Linz’, 1938-1945;

Munich Central Collecting Point (Mu-number 1445/15), 1945;

From where repatriated to Austria and restituted to Elisabeth Bondy in 1948;

From whom acquired by Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York, 1949;

With Blumka Gallery, New York, 1994;

From whom acquired by Dr Ernst Boehlen, Bern.

B. J. de Baye, ‘Quelques émaux occidentaux conservés au Musée impérial de Moscou’, in Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1905, pp. 184-187;

N.N. Voronin, ‘Arkheologitsche zamietki’, in Kratkie Soobŝeniâ Instituta Istorii Material’noj Kult’ury, vol. 62, 1956, pp. 25-26, fig. 12;

V.P. Darkevič, Proizvedeniâ zapadnogo hudožestvennogo remesla v Vostočnoj Evrope (X-XIV vv.), Moscow 1966, p. 27, no. 43, pl. 22-1;

E. Bertrand, Emaux limousins du moyen age, Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, 1995, p. 54, no. 82;

M.M. Gauthier, ‘Colombe limousine prise aux rêts d’un “antiquaire” bénédictin à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, vers 1726’, in Intuition und Kunstwissenschaft: Festschrift für Hanns Swarzenski zum 70. Geburtstag, Berlin, 1973, p. 188, note 19;

E. Dabrowska and G. François, ‘La diffusion de l’Oeuvre de Limoges à l’Est de l’Europe médiévale’, in Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, vol. 14, 2009, pp. 287-306, p. 296;

M.-M. Gauthier, É. Antoine and D. Gaborit-Chopin (et al.), Corpus des émaux méridionaux, tome ii, L'apogée 1190-1215, Paris, 2011, (CD-ROM), ch. III C, no. 9.