Pendant
ca. 1680-1700 (made)
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From 1500 to 1700 Spanish jewellers often made lavish use of emeralds. The Spanish had access to immense quantities of gold, silver, emeralds and pearls through their colonies in South America. This resulted in opulent emerald-studded jewels unlike anything produced elsewhere in Europe. The reverse of this pendant, however, is engraved with the swirling botanical motifs that were popular elsewhere.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gold, set with table-cut emeralds, and hung with an emerald drop |
| Brief description | Pendant with crown design at top, square emeralds set in gold openwork, with large emerald drop, Spain, about 1680-1700. |
| Physical description | Pendant, the scrolling gold openwork is in the form of a bow surmounted by a crown. From the lower edge hangs a spreading triangular segment hung with an emerald drop. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dame Joan Evans |
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| Summary | From 1500 to 1700 Spanish jewellers often made lavish use of emeralds. The Spanish had access to immense quantities of gold, silver, emeralds and pearls through their colonies in South America. This resulted in opulent emerald-studded jewels unlike anything produced elsewhere in Europe. The reverse of this pendant, however, is engraved with the swirling botanical motifs that were popular elsewhere. |
| Bibliographic reference | Edgcumbe, Richard. Catalogue entry. In: Lords of the Ocean. Treasures of the Portuguese Empire in the 16th - 18th centuries, ed. by Yulia Buzykina and Vladimir Tauber. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow, 5 December 2017 - 25 February 2018. Moscow, 2017. ISBN 978-5-88678-316-2 |
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| Accession number | M.138-1975 |
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| Record created | January 14, 2003 |
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