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拍品专文
This pendant seems to be an emblematic rendering of the Roman VIRTUS as courage personified by a rider dressed in Roman costume battling a beast after the myth of Bellerophon and the chimera, as recorded first by Homer in the Iliad (VI.155) and then by Ovid. The scene is often confused with that of Saint George slaying the dragon and such jewels may have been badges of fraternity of knights.
The present lot resembles the work of Simon Grünwald with this bright enamel. Stylistically it is comparable to an enseigne dated 1550-1560 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and illustrated in Hackenbroch (p. 68., 151, op. cit.). The frame, back plate and suspension elements resemble those of a hat badge mounted as a pendant with the flaying of Marsyas from the Robert Lehman collection in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Acc. Number: 1975.1.1523) as well as a pendant figuring Joseph in the Well in the British Museum, London (1956,1007.1) by Alfred Andre, the plasters illustrated in A. Kugel, R. Distelberger & A. Bimbenet-Privat, Joyaux Renaissance, Une Splendeur Retrouvée, Paris, 2000, Annexe pl. XX i/ j and XXVII p.
The present lot resembles the work of Simon Grünwald with this bright enamel. Stylistically it is comparable to an enseigne dated 1550-1560 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and illustrated in Hackenbroch (p. 68., 151, op. cit.). The frame, back plate and suspension elements resemble those of a hat badge mounted as a pendant with the flaying of Marsyas from the Robert Lehman collection in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Acc. Number: 1975.1.1523) as well as a pendant figuring Joseph in the Well in the British Museum, London (1956,1007.1) by Alfred Andre, the plasters illustrated in A. Kugel, R. Distelberger & A. Bimbenet-Privat, Joyaux Renaissance, Une Splendeur Retrouvée, Paris, 2000, Annexe pl. XX i/ j and XXVII p.