Oval Pendant Decorated with Schweifwerk, Surrounded by Smaller Motifs and Crowned by a Baldachin

Jacques Hurtu French
 Publisher Pierre Firens I Flemish

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Part of a series of 6 with goldsmiths designs executed in the blackwork technique. Design for an oval pendant, presumably the reverse of a watch case or medaillon, decorated with Schweifwerk. The design is surrounded by four smaller motifs in the shape of a trapezoid also done in blackwork. Crowning the pendant is a small baldachin which is executed in engraving like the other decorative elements in the print.

Oval Pendant Decorated with Schweifwerk, Surrounded by Smaller Motifs and Crowned by a Baldachin, Jacques Hurtu (French (active 1584–1635)), Blackwork and engraving

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