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Renaissance & Baroque Jewellery
These enamelled, chased and pierced things were made in Spain, Germany and France by Erasmus Hornick, Daniel Mignot and Michel Le Blon between 1400 and 1898.
Spanish
Lamb of God (Agnus Dei)
1600–1650 • pendant
Spanish
Virgin and Child
1525–75 • pendant
Anonymous European Jeweler
Pendant - Mermaid
19th century imitating 16th century
enameled gold, emerald, pearl
British Museum
Anonymous European Jeweler
Pendant - Monstrous Fish
19th century imitating 16th century
enameled gold, emerald, ruby, garnet, amethyst, pearl
British Museum
South America ?
Spain
Spain or South America (?)
Ram amulet
1500–1600 • pendant
Anonymous Hungarian Jeweler
Pendant - Hawk
19th century imitating 16th century
enameled gold, ruby, diamond, pearl
British Museum
Hungary ? France ? Paris or London
Pendant with hawking party
1825–57 • Enamelled gold • pendant
Very similar to a fake jewel from the collection of Charles Sauvageot, a customs official and a violinist in the orchestra in the Opéra Comique in Paris. Sauvageot made a significant collection of Renaissance works of art, which he gave to the Louvre in 1856. Baron Ferdinand admired him as a collector.
Mexico (?)
Pendant
1591 • Enamelled gold, rock crystal • pendant reliquary
British Museum
Mexican or Spanish
Pendant
1550–1600 • Enamelled gold, rock crystal • pendant reliquary
British Museum
Italian or German
Toothpick
1550–1600 • Enamelled gem-set gold, ‘baroque’ pearl • pendant tooth-pick
Constructed around a ‘baroque’ pearl, this pick resembles a design published in 1562 by Erasmus Hornick in Nuremberg. Toothpicks were luxury items. This one may be a clever fake from the 19th century.
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Probably Vienna
Medal pendant
1612 • medallion pendant
In the centre is a gold medal of Maximilian III (1557–1618) Archduke of Austria.
German
Medal pendant
1603–27 • Enamelled gold, pearls • medallion pendant
The medal shows Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse- Kassel in the Holy Roman Empire, with his second wife, Juliana. They married in 1603. Known as ‘Maurice the Learned’ he was a great art patron. His court art collection, or Kunstkammer, was a model for the Rothschilds in the 19th century.
German, Berlin
Medal pendant
1608–19 • Enamelled gold, pearls • medallion pendant
In the centre is Johann Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg (1572–1619). From 1615 he allowed both Lutheran and Calvinist worship in Brandenburg.
Anonymous French Jeweler
Pendant - Couchant Hind
19th century imitating 16th century
enameled gold, ruby, pearl
British Museum
German or Netherlandish
Hat jewel
1600–1650 • Enamelled gold, precious gems • aigrette hat-ornament
A military trophy worn on the hat as seen in portraits of the early 1600s
British Museum
Luigi and Raffaele Angelo Marchi of Bologna
Pendant - imitating painted pendant in
Raphael's altarpiece of St Cecilia
ca. 1898-1902
enameled gold, chalcedony, pearl
British Museum
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