Object Information

French

Pendant with Head of St. John the Baptist, 15th century

Gold, enamel, and carnelian
6.2 x 4.7 cm (2 7/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.301

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. 352.

Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Melvin Gutman Collection of Antique Jewelry, 1966, cat. 57.

Publication History

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Enseignes, Renaissance Hat Jewels (Florence, 1996), p. 15.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 32-33 and 92, no. 2.

Christina Nielsen, ed., Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 16 and 71, no. 47.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1966 [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 10]. Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago, before 1992; given to the Art Institute, 1992.