Object Information
Pendant in the Shape of a Ship, c. 1870/90
Gold, enamel, pearls
10.5 x 6.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 9/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.298
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. 373.
Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1968, cat. 50.
Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, 1975, cat. 37.
Publication History
Edmond Bonnaffé, "Les Bijoux et les Badges," in La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1892), p. 148, no. 35.
Donald F. Rowe, "A 'George in Gold' and Enamels in Chicago Collections," Apollo 95 (1972), p. 53, no. 37 (ill.).
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Insitute 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, 1893, see Chevalier 1893, vol. 2, no. 1820]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1968 [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 96].