Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature. Culture: probably German or French. Designer: Reinhold Vasters (German, Erkelenz 1827-1909 Aachen). Dimensions: Height: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm). Date: ca. 1870-95.With the exception of the links of the chain, an additional molding separating the two bands of decoration on the base, and the unicorn's horn, this jewel is identical to one in a design in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. No. E 2818-1919), by Reinhold Vasters of Aachen. The design was included among the nineteenth-century Renaissance-style jewels and jewelry designs in that museum's exhibition Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance, 1500-1630. It is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue,1 where it was noted that the base of a jewel in the same exhibition lent by Lord Astor of Hever was made from the design for the lower part of the base of the jewel in the drawing.2 The same jewel was illustrated in the catalogue of the collection of Fre

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Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature. Culture: probably German or French. Designer: Reinhold Vasters (German, Erkelenz 1827-1909 Aachen). Dimensions: Height: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm). Date: ca. 1870-95.With the exception of the links of the chain, an additional molding separating the two bands of decoration on the base, and the unicorn's horn, this jewel is identical to one in a design in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. No. E 2818-1919), by Reinhold Vasters of Aachen. The design was included among the nineteenth-century Renaissance-style jewels and jewelry designs in that museum's exhibition Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance, 1500-1630. It is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue,1 where it was noted that the base of a jewel in the same exhibition lent by Lord Astor of Hever was made from the design for the lower part of the base of the jewel in the drawing.2 The same jewel was illustrated in the catalogue of the collection of Fre

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