How boring we live! A phrase from a famous movie comes to my mind when I compare figurines with baroque pearls of the 16th century and modern fantasies (+20th century will be attributed to modernity). In those distant times, irregularly shaped pearls were considered ugly. And since nature did not reward them with perfection, like ideally spherical sisters, people decided to decorate them with their own hands. Correct the mistakes of nature.
And the pearls turned into chimeras unseen by us, modern people.
Such pendants depicted creatures such as dragons, monsters, seahorses, dolphins, mermaids (these are male water), mermaids and other mythical creatures. They gained great popularity during the late Renaissance and were made by jewelers in many European countries, such as Spain, Holland, France, Florence, Bavaria, etc.
ABOUT! Cats have always reigned! Hippocampuses, mermaids and dragons have disappeared, and these masters of human hearts will reign forever.
Hippocampus (Hippocampus) - in ancient myths, this is a sea horse with a fish tail.
On the reverse side of the siren's tail: FALIT · ASPECTVS · CANTVSQ (The appearance of the siren is deceptive and its song is deceptive).
Whether the dream of reason gave birth to these monsters, or did they really exist - this is unknown to us. But the fact that these decorations are masterfully made and have become a work of jewelry art is an indisputable fact.
And it will be interesting for you to compare these jewelry with more modern fantasies of jewelry artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, we wrote about them in the article: What does the Rorschach test look like if you are a jeweler.
