Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls
Album
ca. 1585-1640 (made)
ca. 1585-1640 (made)
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Design for a pendant consisting of foliage in green enamel, an emerald and three bunches of grapes (one large) in clustered amethysts, from an album of jewellery designs. Affixed to the page is a certified copy made by George Calvert of an Exchequer warrant of 1605 concerning payment for jewels ordered by James I. Calvert. Affixed to this page is a 19th century transcript of the document on blue writing paper with the badge of the Prince of Wales. Affixed to this is a fragment cut from a 19th century legal document. 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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Materials and techniques | Designs in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold, in a calf skin album |
Brief description | Design for a pendant consisting of foliage in green enamel, an emerald and three bunches of grapes, from an album (in 25 parts) of designs for jewellery (aigrettes, rings, pendants, etc) by Arnold Lulls. Dutch School, ca. late 16th to early 17th century. |
Physical description | Design for a pendant consisting of foliage in green enamel, an emerald and three bunches of grapes (one large) in clustered amethysts, from an album of jewellery designs. Affixed to the page is a certified copy made by George Calvert of an Exchequer warrant of 1605 concerning payment for jewels ordered by James I. Calvert. Affixed to this page is a 19th century transcript of the document on blue writing paper with the badge of the Prince of Wales. Affixed to this is a fragment cut from a 19th century legal document. 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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Object history | Affixed to the page is a certified copy made by George Calvert (who subsequently became the 1st Lord Baltimore) of an Exchequer warrant of 1605 concerning payment for jewels ordered by James I. Calvert, originally secretary to Sir Robert Cecil, secretary to Queen Elizabeth, became one of the clerks of the Council in 1608 and was granted a peerage in 1625. The transcribed warrant authorises payments to Lulls and Sir William Herrick (1562-1653) in respect of jewels ordered by the king "at this new year's tide now last past". The jewels include a rope of round pearls for the queen, a "great round pearl" also for the queen, a chain of stone (sic) and a George for Prince Henry, a jewel for Charles, Duke of York, and "two pictures of gold set with stone" (sic), given to the retiring French ambassador and his lady at a total cost of £3,029. |
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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.6:25-1896 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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