Object Information
Pendant with an Armed Centaur, 19th century
Gold, pearl, and enamel
9.2 x 3.2 cm (3 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1991.378
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 157
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, November 18, 1958 - January 4, 1959, cat. 366.
Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1968, cat. 38.
Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, 1975, cat. 23.
Publication History
Hugh Tait, Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, vol. 1: The Jewels (London, 1986). pp. 133-134.
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), p. 100, cat. 72.
Ownership History
Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940), Frankfurt [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 13-14, 1950, no. 98]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1968 [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 84]. Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, before 1991; given to the Art Institute, 1991.