Two-Sided Pendant with Cameo showing Juno and Minerva

Applied Arts of Europe

19th century

European

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Two-Sided Pendant with Cameo showing Juno and Minerva
Place: Europe (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1801–1900
Medium: Cameo: agate Frame: enamel, gold, diamonds, and pearl
Dimensions: 6.9 × 4.5 × 1 cm (2 11/16 × 1 3/4 × 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1991.377
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Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 25-26, 96, no. 30.

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, 1958.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, November 18, 1958 - January 4, 1959, cat. 375.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 43.
Chicago, The Martin D’Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 34.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Triumph of Humanism, October 22, 1977-January 8, 1978, cat. 100.

Henry Symonds (1821-1879), Birmingham, England [according to Gutman sale, p. 28]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1958 [according to Detroit Institute of Arts catalog, 1958, p. 147]; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 56; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1991.

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