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Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls

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

Three designs on one sheet, consisting of a pair of gold and jewelled earrings, each with a green-enamelled gold loop in the form of a snake swallowing its own tail, surmounted by four small rubies, from which hangs a table-cut diamond within a crescent of white enamel, from which, in turn, depends a single drop-pearl. There is also a design for a pendant in gold and jewels consisting of two table-cut emeralds and another rose-cut emerald with plain faceted sides. The whole is surmounted by a smaller ruby flanked by leaves (of alternative design) in green enamel set with rubies and three drop pearls. The designs are from an album of jewellery designs. 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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read Jewellery designs Complementing the V&A’s exquisite jewellery collections is a selection of drawings for jewellery designs. The museum began acquiring these in 1877, with three books of ‘Italian drawings for metalwork and jewellery’ dating from the 1600s.

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Titles
  • Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls (generic title)
  • Three designs for a pair of gold and jewelled earrings (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 gold and jewelled earrings, each consisting of a green-enamelled gold loop in the form of a snake swallowing its own tail, 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 on one sheet, consisting of a pair of gold and jewelled earrings, each with a green-enamelled gold loop in the form of a snake swallowing its own tail, surmounted by four small rubies, from which hangs a table-cut diamond within a crescent of white enamel, from which, in turn, depends a single drop-pearl. There is also a design for a pendant in gold and jewels consisting of two table-cut emeralds and another rose-cut emerald with plain faceted sides. The whole is surmounted by a smaller ruby flanked by leaves (of alternative design) in green enamel set with rubies and three drop pearls. The designs are from an album of jewellery designs. 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.6:11-1896

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