Reliquary Pendant with Relics
maker
Unknown
Dateearly 20th century
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumSilver and glass with fabric fragments and paper notes
Dimensions2.7 cm (1 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM18e45
eMuseum ID727925
Previous Number512
EmbARK ObjectID14226
TMS Source ID3041
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryGiven to Isabella Stewart Gardner by her good friend and accomplished poet Gretchen Osgood Warren for Christmas in 1923, this silver pendant holds two tiny, yet to be identified relics perhaps mementos of their friendship. Twenty years earlier John Singer Sargent painted Gretchen and her daughter Rachel in the Gothic Room of the Museum. The portrait, a reminder of Isabella’s patronage of contemporary artists, is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 145.
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), pp. 33, 61 no. 19.
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), pp. 33, 61 no. 19.
MarksNotesInscribed in ink on slip of paper (inside): ger... (illegible)
Printed in ink on slip of paper: de Perboyp (?)
Molded (on back): heart in crown of thorns with cross
Printed in ink on slip of paper: de Perboyp (?)
Molded (on back): heart in crown of thorns with cross
ProvenanceNotesGift from the actress, singer and poet Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood, 1871-1961) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 25 December 1923.
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