About This Artwork

Designed by Reinhold Vasters (German; act. 1853-90); probably made by him or possibly by Alfred André (French; 1839-1919)

Pendant Shaped as a Ship, c. 1870/90

Gold, enamel, and pearls
10.5 x 6.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 9/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.298

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. 373.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 50.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, Enamels: The XII to the XVI Century, February 2-March 2, 1970, cat. 39.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 37.

Publication History

Edmond Bonnaffé, "Les Bijoux et les Badges," in La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1891), p. 148, no. 35.

Donald F. Rowe, "A 'George in Gold' and Enamels in Chicago Collections," Apollo 95 (1972), p. 475, no. 23.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 90 and 98, no. 52.

Ownership History

Frédéric Spitzer (1815-1890), Vienna and later Paris [sold, Paris, Mannheim and Chevallier, April 17-June 16, 1893, vol. 2, no. 1820]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1958; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 96; Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.




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