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Two designs for a pin and a pendant

Album
ca. late 18th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

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Object type
TitleTwo 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.
Dimensions
  • Size of album height: 22cm
  • Width: 155cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
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
Subjects depicted
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.
Collection
Accession number
D.6:19-1896

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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