About This Artwork

Flemish (?) or French (?)

Pendant Shaped as a Dove, 17th century

Enameled gold and pearls
3.5 x 2 cm (1 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.538

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 71 and 96, no. 34.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1968; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 3, 1970, no. 62; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.