Description
These heads of Bacchus, the Roman wine god, and two female followers, known as bacchantes, are carved from highly prized red coral.
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
Mrs. Bernard Trupp [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1959, by gift.
