Pendant

CultureUnknown
Titles
  • Pendant
Datec. 1750
MediumSepia on ivory, gold, hair, and glass
DimensionsOverall: 1 3/4 × 1 1/4 × 1/8 in. (4.4 × 3.2 × .3 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline A. Ross
Object number2005.1805
Not on view

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Department
Rienzi
Provenance[Morning Glory Antiques, New York]; purchased by Caroline Ross, June, 2000; bequeathed to MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History"Love Tokens: Portrait Miniatures from the Caroline A. Ross Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Alice Pratt Brown Gallery and Rienzi; Drawing Room, November 3, 2007-March 3, 2008.

“Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Rienzi, September 13, 2014–February 1, 2015.

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