Necklace with Butterfly Pendant

Description Elaborate diadems or necklaces featuring centerpieces of inlaid stones, pendants, and beaded chains go back to 3rd- and 2nd-century Greek jewelry. This necklace was found on the neck of the deceased; as the symbol of the soul, the butterfly was an appropriate motif for a burial gift.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/28/1979	Treatment	cleaned; stabilized
10/28/1988	Treatment	repaired
10/28/1988	Treatment	other
11/08/1988	Treatment	stabilized

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
• From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.
• Excursions through the Collection: Portraiture, Adornment, and the Natural World. 2019-2021.

Provenance [Discovered in 1891, in a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine]; Postnikov, Moscow, by purchase [from a local dealer in Ukraine]; Spinks, London, by purchase [around the turn of the century]; Peter Mavrogordato, 1913, by purchase [on the art market]; Collection of F. L. van Gans?, Frankfurt, 1913-1920, by purchase; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 B]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926