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Source Description
An enameled gold and jeweled pendant, the openwork scrolled back-plate with various colored leaves, flowers, and shells, the front set with a large table cut diamond in a high cusped box collet, sides with black arabesques on a blue base, flanked by a pair of table cut diamonds in square collets. It is crowned with an allegorical figure in half relief of a care breasted woman in red drapery clasping a column and riding a stag with head turned back to look at the woman. One of its antlers is now missing. The combinatin suggests a personification of Fortitude.The chain and attachments with surrounding flourishes are 19th-century repairs and embellishments, probably by Reinhold Vasters (1827-1909).
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Document identity
localId
29648
label
Pendant with a Personification of Fortitude
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obj
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object
citationUrl
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2
Source metadata
id
29648
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Pendant with a Personification of Fortitude
description
An enameled gold and jeweled pendant, the openwork scrolled back-plate with various colored leaves, flowers, and shells, the front set with a large table cut diamond in a high cusped box collet, sides with black arabesques on a blue base, flanked by a pair of table cut diamonds in square collets. It is crowned with an allegorical figure in half relief of a care breasted woman in red drapery clasping a column and riding a stag with head turned back to look at the woman. One of its antlers is now missing. The combinatin suggests a personification of Fortitude.The chain and attachments with surrounding flourishes are 19th-century repairs and embellishments, probably by Reinhold Vasters (1827-1909).
provenance
Frédéric Spitzer, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 1893, Lot 1819 [Sale catalogue plate XLVII]; Belle da Costa Greene [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1951, by gift.
date
ca. 1600 (with 19th century restoration) (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Enamels
pendants
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
12.7
height
6
depth
3
dimensionsRaw
H w/ chain: 5 × W: 2 3/8 × D: 1 3/16 in. (12.7 × 6 × 3 cm)
Source extras
med
gold, enamel, diamonds, rubies, pearls
creator_ids
6211
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
2513
405
2888
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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76f6472a3b233f5c
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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686cfba31003e4d1
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no
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no