Baroque Pearl Mounted as a Cat Holding a Mouse

17th century

Spanish or south German

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

Title: Baroque Pearl Mounted as a Cat Holding a Mouse
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.: 1600–1700
Medium: Gold, enamel, and baroque pearl
Dimensions: 2.7 × 4 cm (1 1/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1992.499
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M. L. Otrange, “A Collection of Renaissance Jewels at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Connoisseur 130 (1952), p. 70.
Peter Stone, Baroque Pearls, Apollo 69 (1959), p. 108.
Yvonne Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewelry (London, 1979), p. 154.
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), p. 69 and 96, no. 32.

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, 1948.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1951-62.

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1951; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 88; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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