"Gold And Enamel Order For Saint Dominic. Spanish, Around 1630."
Gold and enamel Order for Saint Dominic. Spanish, c.1630.A pierced gold pendant decorated in white & black enamels for the Order of Saint Dominic.
Spanish, c.1630.
Measures 5.7 x 4.4cm.
Some re-enamelling, most of the original enamel remains intact.
Similar examples can be found in ‘Jewels in Spain’, by Priscilla E. Muller and ‘Joyaux Renaissance, Une Splendeur Retrouvée’, by J. Kugel.
An emerald pendant in the Victoria & Albert Museum bears the cross of the same order, accession no. M.308-1910.
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