Memorial pendant
about 1800
Object PlaceUnited States
Medium/TechniqueGold with horn/ivory or bone/shell
DimensionsHeight x width: 3 5/16 x 2 7/16 in. (8.4 x 6.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Margaret Roys
Accession number49.511
On View
Not on viewClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
InscriptionsA M / Obt Sep 9 / 1800 / AEt 25" (from card)ProvenanceCollection of Miss Margaret Roys by 1949; to MFA June 6, 1949, gift.
"Locket in memory of Abigail May, d. Sept. 9 1800." (from object file)
"from a letter: This locket is part of a bequest which came to my mother and her two sisters from the estate of their two great aunts, the Misses Mary Davenport and Charlotte Augusta May, the last two of the family of Colonel John and his wife Abigail May of Boston and sisters of the Abigail May whose death is commemorated on the locket...
...the portrait of my great-great-grandmother May (the mother of Abigail of the locket) painted by Gilbert Stuart...was at the museum..returned to its owner, the Children's Aid Society, and now hangs in their building in Mount Vernon Street...Guerrier portrait of her husband owned by the American Antiquarian Society...
Margaret Roys" (from object file)
"Locket in memory of Abigail May, d. Sept. 9 1800." (from object file)
"from a letter: This locket is part of a bequest which came to my mother and her two sisters from the estate of their two great aunts, the Misses Mary Davenport and Charlotte Augusta May, the last two of the family of Colonel John and his wife Abigail May of Boston and sisters of the Abigail May whose death is commemorated on the locket...
...the portrait of my great-great-grandmother May (the mother of Abigail of the locket) painted by Gilbert Stuart...was at the museum..returned to its owner, the Children's Aid Society, and now hangs in their building in Mount Vernon Street...Guerrier portrait of her husband owned by the American Antiquarian Society...
Margaret Roys" (from object file)
about 1850
about 1910
about early 20th century
about 1820
19th century
about 1850
about 1850
about 1830–60