Jewelry and other Pretty Shiny Things

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Jewelry and other Pretty Shiny Things

Written by Marion McNealy

necklace_4 Women have loved beautiful jewelry since time immoriable. A collection of extant jewelry pieces found online, as well as period manuscripts relating to jewelry.

Manuscripts

Kleinodienbuch der Herzogin Anna von Bayern - BSB Cod.icon. 429
München 1552 - 1555

Jewelry catalog book of Herzogin Anna of Bavaria painted by Hans Mielich. Very beautiful full color illustrations of all the jewelry belonging to her.

Real Online finds, please click the links

Pendant: Fortuna, Bild #: 013635
1550 ; 1600 ; Budapest ; Ungarn ; Museum für angewandte Kunst ; IN 13694

A beautiful hat pin, enameled and bejeweled

Reiter, Bild: 002309, 1545 ; 1555 ; Wien ; Österreich ; Wien ; Schatzkammer des Deutschen Ordens

Choker necklace, gold plated over silver and pearl
Halskrause, Bild: 008671

Halskrause des Matthias Corvinus(?) 1500 ; 1550 ;

Bildindex Finds

These pieces were found on Bildindex at
Orte / N / Nürnberg / Sammlungen / Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Kunstgewerbe / Schmuck / Ketten, Anhänger und Armbänder

Linked Gold Chain, GNM 4321

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Caption reads:

Linked gold chain from Nurnberg, 1551-1600. Gold and Amethyst. 47 cm long. Matches? Belongs to? GNM 3775 and 3805 I just love the style of links on this one and the amathyst center stone is just lovely.

Jeweled Necklace and matching bracelets, GNM 4188

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Bracelets

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Necklace

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Caption on photos reads, my rough translation plus some additional information:

Chain made of pieces. Nurnberg from 1530 to 1540. Gold, Pearls, Precious Stones, Coral and Gems. 39.2 cm long. This type of necklace and bracelets would have been a proper part of the bride's dowry (Brautschatz) and would have gone along with the Nurnberger Bride's Crown (Kronbraut) that is so often seen in Jost Amman's etchings.

Chain with Carved Medallion, GNM 3540

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Caption reads:

Chain with Patenpfennig (Religous medalian? I think the literal translation is godpenny? patenkind means godchild) of Adrian Schwoben. Augsburg 1595? Silver, Gold gilt.