Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls
Album
ca. 1585-1640 (made)
ca. 1585-1640 (made)
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Drawing of a large ruby and a fine pearl, on a separate sheet pasted into an album of jewellery designs. This sheet is inscribed with a descriptive note by Lulls. There is a second sheet affixed to this bearing a pen and ink drawing of a pendant consisting of a diamond (?) rising from a crown supported by two winged cherubs (probably not an integral part of the design) which surmount a large heart-shaped ruby from which in turn, is suspended a large pearl. 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 | Drawing of a large ruby and a fine pearl on a sparate sheet pasted into 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 | Drawing of a large ruby and a fine pearl, on a separate sheet pasted into an album of jewellery designs. This sheet is inscribed with a descriptive note by Lulls. There is a second sheet affixed to this bearing a pen and ink drawing of a pendant consisting of a diamond (?) rising from a crown supported by two winged cherubs (probably not an integral part of the design) which surmount a large heart-shaped ruby from which in turn, is suspended a large pearl. 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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| Marks and inscriptions | Portrait van eenen grooten Robijn ende schoene perle toebehoerende mijnen broeder Peeter Lulls ende Compe den welcken overmidts niet Schoen van colleur wesende alhier niet en heb connen vercoopen. Hem terugge gesonde heb. (Note inscribed in ink on the pasted-in sheet by Arnold Lulls)
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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.6:20-1896 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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