Rosette

Description A round sheet with circles of twisted, braided, and smooth wire forming the border; and a fourteen-petaled filigree palmette with a garnet center in a serrated box setting. On the back, a ribbed tube for threading onto the chain of a necklace or diadem.

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters