Ring with Portrait of a Woman
Description Conservation Exhibitions Provenance Credit
Description This gold ring has a raised hexagonal fluted bezel with a miniature portrait of a lady in 16th-century costume under faceted diamond. The convex hoop has a winged terminal figure at the shoulders, and is enameled and set with diamonds. This is a neo-renaissance ring.
2/08/1962 Treatment cleaned
6/01/1983 Examination examined for loan
6/20/1983 Loan Consideration examined for loan
8/01/1984 Treatment other
6/28/2006 Treatment examined for condition; stabilized; repaired; coated
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.
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.
Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry. El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso. 2010.
Provenance Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; given to Laura F. Delano, New York; given to Walters Art Museum, 1947.
Credit Gift of Laura F. Delano, 1947
French (?) (Artist)
English (?) (Artist)
gold and diamonds with champlevé, en ronde bosse, and painted enamel
(Gold, Silver & Jewelry)
1/2 in. (1.3 cm)
United Kingdom, England (Place of Origin)
France (Place of Origin)