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Chain with a Portrait Medallion

CultureRoman
Date238-243 C.E.
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 34 5/8 inches (87.95 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number56-78
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 104
Collections
Exhibition History

Exhibition of Gold, Cleveland Museum of Art, October 31, 1947-January 11, 1948.

 

2500 Years of Italian Art and Civilization, Seattle Art Museum, November 10-December 8, 1957.

 

Luxury: Treasures of the Roman Empire, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, July 9-October 2, 2016.

Provenance
Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), New York, by October 31, 1947-1955;

 

Hirsch estate, New York, 1955-1956;

 

Purchased from the Hirsch estate by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.
Published References

William M. Milliken, “Exhibition of Gold,” Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 9 (November 1947): 211-12, (repro.).

 

2500 Years of Italian Art and Civilization (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1957), fig. 21.

 

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 40.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “Maximianus Herculeus and the Cubist Style in the Late Roman Empire,” Bulletin (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 19 (1960): 17.

 

Eleanor Munro, The Encyclopedia of Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Ornament from Prehistoric Times to the Twentieth Century (New York: Golden Press, 1961), 54, fig. 4.   

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “Greek and Roman Portraits in American Collections Open to the Public: A Survey of Important Monumental Likenesses in Marble and Bronze Which Have Not Been Published Extensively,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, no. 2 (April 15, 1964): 105.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “A Greek Theme and its Survivals: The Ruler’s Shield (Tondo Image) in Tomb and Temple,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 109, no. 6 (1965): 383, fig. 37.

 

Rudolf Winkes, Clipeata imago: Studien zur einer römischen Bildnisform (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1969), 80, 171-172.

 

Henning Wrede, Die spätantike Hermengalerie von Welschbillig: Untersuchung zur Kunsttradition im 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. und zur allgemeinen Bedeutung des antiken Hermenmals (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1972), 71-72n211, plate 33.4. 

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 50.

 

Gunter Grimm, Die Römischen Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1974), 123, plate 135.1,2.   

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “Numismatics in Antiquity,” Swiss Numismatics Review 54 (1975): 20, fig. 6.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Cypress: Art from Classical through Late Antique Times (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1976), 122, 127, figs. V II 6-7.  

 

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 31, fig. 8.

 

Jutta-Annette Bruhn, “Nummus pro gemmis: Coin Settings in Roman Imperial Jewelry” (PhD diss., Brown University, 1991), 50, 188.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 124.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 19, fig. 49.

 

Robert Cohon, “Roman Metrics and Roman Sarcophagi,” in Barbara Porod and Gabriele Koiner, eds., Römische Sarkophage: Akten des Internationalen Werkstattgesprächs, 11. -13. Oktober 2012 (Graz) (Graz: Uni Graz, 2015), 75, fig. 3.

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