Pendant

Gold-plated copper alloy almond shaped pendant of a central realistic flower projecting from a fluted base and edged by openwork filigree and a thin lining of fluting. The flower and fluting may be from a stamp; flower is texturized and bears three globules at its center and lightly impressed/filigreed leaves. The hanging element is a wide texturized gold loop.

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, illustrated p. 88

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