Object details
Object number
M27w553
Creator(s)
German
Title
Reliquary Pendant
Date
16th century - 17th century
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
7.1 x 5.4 x 0.4 cm (2 13/16 x 2 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Christogram (side 1): MARIA
Christogram (side 2): IHS
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antique dealer Theodor Einstein & Co., Munich on 16 August 1897 for 25 marks through her husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837–1898).
Commentary
This reliquary pendant is decorated with the letters IHS, an abbreviation of the Greek form of Jesus Christ, and MARIA, for the Virgin Mary.
Bibliography
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp. 99-101, fig. 51.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Ecclesiastical Case
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