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Lot n° 6017

Pelten-shaped silver alloy jewelry pendant with...

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Pelten-shaped silver alloy jewelry pendant with traces of gilding. Hollow work. Back and sides smooth. The front side richly decorated with floral vines. At the top hemispherical finial with eyelet. In the center animal depiction (hind?). Below, roughly diamond-shaped zone, centered with a faceted inlay of lapis lazuli, also diamond-shaped, surrounded by foliage above, tendrils below. Below, two almond-shaped decorative fields with antithetic animal depictions, probably two hinds again. On the sides two heads of birds of prey with depiction of plumage on the neck. Bottom trapezoidal finial with tendrils. Height 8,5 cm. Width 7,6 cm. Extremely attractive piece of jewelry of high artistic quality. Provenance: Rhenish private collection, taken over from father's property. Condition: I -