Keywords: German - Pendant with the Crucifixion - Walters 57654.jpg This pendant meant to prompt meditation as well as to provide ornamentation takes the shape of the Crucifixion with Mary and St John on either side of Christ The cross is represented as the Tree of Life with a ruby set below Christ's feet The ring at the top was for a chain to suspend the pendant while that at the bottom was probably for a pearl a common addition to many pendants of the time late Other date century 15 Late Medieval gilded silver with ruby cm 7 2 3 1 0 8 accession number 57 654 20910 Henry Walters Baltimore by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 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 Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Jewellery of Germany Metalwork of Germany Renaissance jewellery Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Crosses in jewellery |