About This Artwork

South German

Eleven Links Fashioned as a Necklace, late 16th century

Enameled gold, diamonds
30.5 cm (12 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.508

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 58.

Publication History

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 53-54 and 94, no. 19.

Ownership History

Professor Luigi Grassi (d. 1937), Florence, later New York, by 1927 [sold, New York, American Art Galleries, January 20-22, 1927, no. 457]. Mrs. Henry Walters (Sarah Jones Pembroke Walters, died 1943) New York and Baltimore [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 30, May 1-3, 1941, no. 1102]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, new York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 107; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.