Hat Badge with the Head of Saint John the Baptist Adapted as a Pendant

c. 1500

French

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

Title: Hat Badge with the Head of Saint John the Baptist Adapted as a Pendant
Place: France (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.: 1490–1510
Medium: Gold, carnelian, and enamel
Dimensions: 6.2 × 4.7 cm (2 7/16 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1992.301
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Yvonne Hackenbroch, Enseignes, Renaissance Hat Jewels (Florence, 1996), p. 15.
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 32-33 and 92, no. 2.
Christina Nielsen, ed., Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 16 and 71, no. 47.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959, cat. 352.
Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Melvin Gutman Collection of Antique Jewelry, 1964-66, cat. 57.
Chicago. Martin D’Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, spring 1975, cat. 2.

Monastery in Klagenfurt [according to D’Arcy 1975]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1958; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 10; Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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