Crown, Probably for a Statue of the Christ Child

c. 1600-c. 1650

Spanish or Spanish Colonial

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Crown, Probably for a Statue of the Christ Child
Place: Spain (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.: 1600–1650
Medium: Gold, enamel, emeralds, diamonds, and pearls
Dimensions: 13 × 9.5 cm (5 1/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1992.290
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Yvonne Hackenbroch, “Jewelry” The Concise Encyclopedia of Antiques (London, 1954), pp. 168-72, illus. 96.
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 49-50 and 93, no. 16.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 61.
Chicago, The Martin D’Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 47.

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 119; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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