Pendant

Gold-plated copper alloy pendant of filigree and web overlay on fluted and filigreed decorative, compass or sunburst shaped base. Trapezoidal shapes are pierced through the base and decorated with alternating simple spiraled filigree and a line of twisted wire. The hanging element is an openwork filigree loop. The bottom may be manufactured with filigree overlay handmade.

Marian Johnson, purchased in Dakar, Senegal, 1963-late 20th century to 2012

Good As Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 24, 2018-February 2, 2020; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, September 16, 2020-January 3, 2021

Maples, Amanda, Ashby Johnson, Marian, and Dumouchelle, Kevin D., 2018, Good As Gold, Washington, D.C.: NMAfA, Smithsonian, p. 88, illustrated p. 90

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