Keywords: German - Pendant with the Virgin and Child in Glory - Walters 571991.jpg The depiction of the Virgin and Child in Glory within an aureole large almond-shaped halo of roses evoked for contemporaries both a well-known image from the book of Revelation interpreted as the Virgin's triumph over evil and the rosary The ring at the top is for a chain while that at the bottom is for a pendant pearl between 1500 1550 Renaissance gilt on cast silver cm 1 2 accession number 57 1991 8375 Collection of Melvin Gutman Sale Parke-Bernet Galleries New York April 24 1969 lot 11 Blumka Gallery New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1970 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1970 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 Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Jewellery of Germany Renaissance jewellery 16th-century jewellery Reliefs of Madonna and Child in the United States Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum |