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Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls

Album
ca. 1585-1640 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Three designs for a pair of diamond earrings and a pendant from an album of jewellery designs. The earrings consist of nine diamonds (table-cut and faceted) set in gold with enamelled decoration, each with a drop-pearl. The pendant consists of a large rectangular table-cut emerald surrounded by four small table-cut rubies set in enamelled decoration, with a drop-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.


Object details

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Object type
Titles
  • Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls (generic title)
  • Three designs for a pair of diamond earrings 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
Three designs for a pair of diamond earrings and a pendant 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
Three designs for a pair of diamond earrings and a pendant from an album of jewellery designs. The earrings consist of nine diamonds (table-cut and faceted) set in gold with enamelled decoration, each with a drop-pearl. The pendant consists of a large rectangular table-cut emerald surrounded by four small table-cut rubies set in enamelled decoration, with a drop-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.
Dimensions
  • Size of album height: 22cm
  • Width: 155cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
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.6:13-1896

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