Two designs for a pin and a pendant
Album
ca. late 18th century (made)
ca. late 18th century (made)
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Two designs for a pin and a pendant, from an album of jewellery designs. The pin consists of two serpents holding bunches of grapes (clustered amethysts) in their mouths and, at the head of the pin, a large baroque pearl to which are affixed two red cabochon stones and one pearl. The second is a design for a pendant consisting of a large baroque pearl suspended from a dragon in green enamel with two small amethysts, and another bunch of grapes (clustered amethysts) hanging from the baroque pearl. On a smaller hexagonal piece of paper affixed to the larger sheet is a design for a gold and enamel signet ring showing a wreath sable, and/or a demi-lion rampant or on an azure field. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold.
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Title | Two designs for a pin and a pendant (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Designs in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold, in a calf skin album |
Brief description | Two designs for a pin and a pendant on a separate sheet pasted into an album (in 25 parts) of designs for jewellery (aigrettes, rings, pendants, etc) by Arnold Lulls. Anonymous (after Lulls), ca. late 18th century. |
Physical description | Two designs for a pin and a pendant, from an album of jewellery designs. The pin consists of two serpents holding bunches of grapes (clustered amethysts) in their mouths and, at the head of the pin, a large baroque pearl to which are affixed two red cabochon stones and one pearl. The second is a design for a pendant consisting of a large baroque pearl suspended from a dragon in green enamel with two small amethysts, and another bunch of grapes (clustered amethysts) hanging from the baroque pearl. On a smaller hexagonal piece of paper affixed to the larger sheet is a design for a gold and enamel signet ring showing a wreath sable, and/or a demi-lion rampant or on an azure field. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold. |
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Gallery label | Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars label text:
Hairpin, pendant and seal matrix drawings
From the Lulls Album
About 1600–20
This album of drawings of jewellery is connected
with Arnold Lulls, a merchant and jeweller. The
grape jewels on this page are similar to pendants
from the Cheapside Hoard on display nearby, as
well as to grape pendants which Lulls’s eldest
daughter, Susanna, listed in her will in 1653. The
object on the left is a seal with a lion, a heraldic
crest used by Susanna.
London
Centre and right drawings: pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper;
left drawing: watercolour, bodycolour and gold paint on laid paper
V&A D.6.19-1896 |
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Bibliographic reference | Referenced in: Hayward, J. 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Queen Anne of Denmark'. Archaeologia. v.108, pp. 227-237. London, 1986. |
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Accession number | D.6:19-1896 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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