Vadas József (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 13. (Budapest, 1993)

SZILÁGYI András: Az Esterházy gyűjtemény Cupidós násfájáról

Century Hungary)

2 Budapest, 1986, Vol.1, p.l44; Vol.11, p. 194. (Citing one of the original documents in the archives of the Thurzó family). 13 Kubinyi, M.: Bethlenfalvi gróf Thurzó Imre (Count Imre Thurzó of Bethlenfalva) 1598 - 1621. Budapest, 1888, pp. 41 and 55. 14 The type and number of the stones decorating the pendant are as follows: (the numbers in brackets represent the original, full condition): Diamond: 20 (20), Ruby: 43 (46), Pearl: 19 (20). The closest description of the present state is in the 1653 inventory. However, the resemblance - and in the case of diamonds, the same number - between the 1618 and the present descriptions is significant. The numbers of the stones - as we have already mentioned in the study - are as follows: 20 diamonds, 60 rubies, 40 pearls. If from this number we deduct the amount of stones decorating the pendant, we get 14 rubies, 20 pearls, which, to my mind, are possibly used for decorating an early seventeenth century necklace with stylized carafe motifs. This characteristic type of Late Renaissance necklaces could - as contemporary inventories prove - justifiably be called "Spanish art". Among the well-known, unscathed examples of this type we would like to mention the beautiful and often published one, connected with Queen Isabella: see Hungarian National Museum, Inv.No. Pig.Jank. 6. Ref. H.Kolba, J. - T. Németh,A.: Ötvösmüvek (Goldsmith's Works) Budapest, 1973. pp. 17 and 36, picts. 32-33; H.Kolba, J.: A Nemzeti Múzeum ötvöstárgyai a Jankovich gyűjteményből (Goldsmith's Works From The Jankovich Collection in the Hungarian National Museum) In.Jankovich Miklós, a gyűjtő és mecénás (Miklós Jankovich, the Collector and the Patron ) /1772-1846/. Ed. by Belitska-Scholtz, H. Budapest, 1985 pp. 107 and 118, Note 80, pict. 33. (with earlier references). 15 Kubinyi, I., see above, pp.36-41.