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Pendant in the form of Cupid in a niche
Efforts to reproduce a design quickly and simply were made as early as the Renaissance. Looking closely at this pendant, one can see that it is assembled of various parts: the niche, the little figure and the settings of the precious stones are joined together with screws.
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Creator
- anonymous
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
Type of item
- Object Type: jewelry
- jewelry
- Jewelry
Creator
- anonymous
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
Type of item
- Object Type: jewelry
- jewelry
- Jewelry
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- c.1560 - c.1580
Places
- Germany
- Germany
Provenance
- collection Hermitage, Petersburg;{Note RMA.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939) Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 19, no. K.18.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960
Identifier
- BK-17058
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/BK-17058
Extent
- height 5.5 cm
- width 3.9 cm
Format
- gold (metal)
- pearl
- Pearl
- Gold
- Vitreous enamel
Language
- nl
- nld
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-04-21T11:41:12.945Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-04-21T11:41:12.945Z
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