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Syria, Dura-Europos
wool: 2-2 twill
Average: 14.7 x 11.5 cm (5 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Gift of Yale University, Gallery of Fine Arts
This painted enamel pendant was probably commissioned as a baptism gift. An inscription on the back of the silver frame gives a birth date (September 9, 1768), and the date of the child's "name day," or baptism (September 28), also the date of the feasts of Saints Chariton the Confessor and Alexander the Coppersmith of Phrygia. These saints, one of whom is probably the namesake of the pendant's infant owner, are painted on the front of the pendant, with St. Chariton's scroll advising: "Brethren, be clean in soul and in body."
H: 3 1/8 x W: 2 1/16 in. (8 x 5.2 cm)
medium: silver, painted enamel
style: Baroque
dynasty: House of Romanov
reign: Catherine II
Walters Art Museum, 1952, by purchase.
Japanese
H: 8 3/8 x Diam: 5 1/4 in. (21.3 x 13.3 cm)
medium: stoneware with rice-straw ash and iron glazes
style: Kyoto ware
culture: Japanese
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Palmer, who was self-taught, was among the first American sculptors to break with the prevailing neoclassical style and adopt a more naturalistic approach.
This plaster is of the left foot only of Palmer's sculpture "The White Captive." Palmer created a separate foot carved in marble in early 1860, carved by Charles Calverley, and that at least two plaster versions were also made. One is now at the Walters, and the other, which was formerly owned by Henry T. Tuckerman of New York, is now lost.
This plaster foot was found in the Walters' townhouse, at 5 West Mount Vernon Place, in the 1940s. Although no documentation relating to the foot has come to light, it is likely that it was acquired by, or given to William T. Walters around the time it was made. William purchased a bust of Flora from the artist and a full-length subject of a child, titled "First Grief." A daguerreotype of Palmer's "Sleeping Peri" is in the museum's archive, and was also found at 5 West Mount Vernon place.
H: 6 × W: 4 13/16 × D: 10 13/16 in. (15.2 × 12.3 × 27.5 cm)
medium: plaster
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [accessioned in 1941].