Jewellery

Name: Jewellery
Author: Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford)

Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford)

Jewelry

XXXVII. RENAISSANCE BRACELETS                                   _p. 266._
           1.    Gold bracelet of circular fluted links with
                   enamelled clasp. German, late sixteenth
                   century. _p. 266._ (V. and A. M.)
           2.    Bracelet of enamelled gold. French, seventeenth
                   century. _p. 294._ (V. and A. M.)
           3-4.  Bracelet of Diana of Poitiers, enamelled gold,
                   set with cameos. _p. 266._ (Bibliothèque
                   Nationale, Paris.) (Photo, Giraudon.)
           5.    Gold bracelet of Otto Henry, Count Palatine of
                   Neuburg (d. 1604), with his wife's initials--
                   D M P B R G H Z W V T (Dorothea Maria Pfalzgräfin
                   bei Rhein geborne Herzogin zu Wirtemberg und Tek.)
                   Compare _p. 230._ (Bavarian National Museum, Munich.)

 XXXVIII. RENAISSANCE GIRDLES                                    _p. 272._
            1.  Italian, fifteenth-century girdle of gold
                  tissue with gilt metal mounts. _p. 163._
                  (V. and A. M.)
            2.  Silver gilt chain girdle. German, late sixteenth
                  century. (Mrs. Percy Macquoid.)
            3.  Nuremberg girdle of leather, with silver-gilt
                  mounts. Seventeenth century. _p. 272._
                  (V. and A. M.)

 XXXIX. ENGRAVED DESIGNS FOR JEWELLERY BY DANIEL MIGNOT.
       _p. 280._ (Mr. Max Rosenheim.)                            _p. 280._

 XL. ENGRAVED DESIGNS FOR JEWELLERY BY GILLES LÉGARÉ
     AND PAUL BIRCKENHULTZ                                       _p. 282._
       1-2.  Designs for pendants, seals, and rings; from
               Gilles Légaré's _Livre des Ouvrages d'Orfévrerie_.
              _p. 282._ (B. M.)
       3.    Seal in the style of Légaré. The upper part gold
               with painted enamel; below, engraved on steel,
               the Royal Arms of the Stuarts, with bâton sinister,
               of Anne Fitz Roy (b. 1661, d. 1721, married 1674,
               Lord Dacre, created Earl of Sussex), daughter of
               Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, and
               Charles II. (Col. Croft Lyons.)
       4.    Design for a pendant by Paul Birckenhultz.
              _pp. 280-1._ (Mr. Max Rosenheim.)

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