Description
In this unusual example of sentimental jewelry, the portrait of the unidentified man is mounted in a gold bracelet. The rim is set with alternating pearls and diamonds.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
1/15/1964
Treatment
cleaned
6/24/1964
Treatment
other
Exhibitions
Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2006-2009.
Provenance
A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Inscriptions
[Label] on reverse: J? Taylor
Credit
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963