About This Artwork

German or Austrian

Two-Sided Pendant Reliquary Cross with Figures of Christ, Mount: late 15th century (with later additions?)
Interior Cross: 6th/9th century (?)

Silver gilt and porphyry
9.5 x 4.9 cm (3 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.501

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, pp. 32-34.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 1.

Publication History

M. L. Otrange, "Jewels of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century,” The Connoisseur 132 (1953), pp. 126-33, here pp. 126-27.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 26, 31-32, and 92, no. 1.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 12; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.