Medallion Pendant

Description This enameled gold and jeweled medallion encloses a vari-colored relief of the Resurrection, and below the crystal-set open tomb, the skeleton of death, and cloven hoofed Satan. The frame with silhouette ornament on a red ground is embellished with white open scrolls set with crystals in square collets. Three hanging chains interspersed with pearls are attached to a suspension loop, with three hanging pearls below.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/22/1969	Examination	survey
9/01/1971	Treatment	cleaned
5/24/1984	Examination	examined for technical analysis
5/09/1991	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
• Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. 1984-1987.
• Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery and the Zucker Family Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987.

Provenance Seligman, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1906