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While I refer to these as “pendants,” the Elizabethan English term seems to be “jewels” – the “pendants” on a jewel are the bits that dangle from the bottom.
See also Pendants & Brooches for examples of where such jewels were worn – pinned to hair or garments, and/or dangling from necklaces; there are additional photos at Monstrous Animals: Hanging Animal Pendants of the Late Renaissance.
- Pendant in the shape of a salamander, Italy, 16th century
- Pendant with a bell, a flute, and a mermaid, Spain, 16th century
- Opal pendant, 16th century
Baroque Pearl Pendants(That is, pendants which prominently feature an irregularly-shaped pearl, known today as a “baroque pearl,” rather than a baroque pendant that features pearls.)
- Pendant in the shape of a ship, France, either 16th century or 19th century
- A pendant of the Golden Fleece, 16th century (for Golden Fleece collars, see the livery collars linkspage)
- Hercules pendant, Paris, c. 1540
- Pendant in the shape of a hunting dog, Germany, c. 1560
- Pendant in the shape of a kid, Spain, c. 1576-1600
- Pendant in the shape of a horse, Spain, c. 1576-1600
- Pendant in the shape of a caravel, Italy, late 16th century
- Pendant in the shape of a salamander, western Europe, late 16th century
- Pendant in the shape of a bird, Europe, late 16th century
- Pendant in the shape of a mermaid, Spain or Holland, late 16th century
- Pendant shaped as a dragon, late 16th/early 17th century
- Pendant shaped as a dog, late 16th/early 17th century
- Pendant with a bunch of grapes, southern Germany, beginning of the 17th century
- Pendant in the shape of a cockerel, possibly Germany, c. 1600-1610
- Pendant with a lion, Flemish or German, c. 1600-1650
- Pendant in the shape of a ship, Germany, 16th century
- Pendant in the shape of a ship (back), made in 16th century Italy
- Pendant designs by Hans Holbein the Younger:
a cruciform pendant, 1530s;
a round pendant, 1533-1536;
a pendant jewel on a black ribbon, c. 1536-1538;
a pendant with intertwined initials, c. 1540-1543
- Torre Abbey Jewel (a skeleton in a coffin), England, c. 1540-1550
- Pendant with a garnet, peridot, and sapphire, England, c. 1540-1560
- The Danny Jewel, England, c. 1550
Cameo Pendants
- The Gatacre Jewel, England (with late Roman-era amethyst cameo), c. 1550-1560
- Cameo with Venus and Cupid, first half of the 16th century
- Cameo with a laurelled head, 16th century
- Cameo of a lady, probably Italy, c. 1560
- Agate cameo pendant, Italy, second half of the 16th century (with late 17th century alteration)
- Pendant jewel with Apollo and Daphne, England (?), second half of the 16th century
- Cameo of a lady, England, second half of the 16th century
- Cameo of a young lady, northern Italy (English mount), second half of the 16th century
- Cameo of a young lady, northern Italy, second of half of the 16th century
- Cameo of a young lady, northern Italy, second half of the 16th century
- Cameo of a bearded man, England, second half of the 16th century
- Cameo of Philip II of Spain, Italy, second half of the 16th century
- Cameo of Philip II of Spain, Italy, second half of the 16th century
- Pendant with a cameo (Philip II of Spain? Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor?), Antwerp, c. 1570-1580
- Cameo of Elizabeth I, c. 1575
- Cameo of Elizabeth I, England, c. 1575-1585
- Cameo of Elizabeth I (?), England, c. 1580
- Pendant with a serpent coiled around a tree and two skull cameos, England, late 16th century
- Pendant with a cameo, Germany, late 16th century
- Mary Queen of Scots Cameo, France or Scotland, late 16th century
- Cameo of James I, France (?), c. 1590
- Reliquary pendant, Spain, early 17th century
- Pendant with 13 cameos, France, early 17th century
- The Barbor Jewel, England, c. 1615-1625
- Eagle pendant of King Sigismund Augustus of Poland, made in mid-16th century Spain
- Commesso pendant with a female bust, France or England, c. 1550-1560
- Pendant with the Annunciation, enamelled gold, second half of the 16th century
- Back of a pendant with an overlapping couple in enamelled gold with pearls, second half of the 16th century
- Pendant in the shape of an eagle, Spain or France, either c. 1551-1575 or a 19th/20th century fake
- Pendant in the shape of a parrot, Germany, c. 1560-1570
- Pendant in the shape of the Pelican in her Piety, Spain, c. 1550-1575
- The Phoenix Jewel, England, c. 1570-1580
- Portrait of Elizabeth I (wearing a pendant), c. 1570-1585
- The Darnley or Lenox Jewel, Scotland (?), c. 1571-1578
- Pendant in the shape of a bear, Germany, last quarter of the 16th century
- Pendant with a heart-shaped piece of rock crystal, Germany, c. 1576-1600
- Pendant in the shape of a camel, Germany, c. 1576-1600
Some pendants in the New Year's Gifts to the Queen, 1577-8:
- By Stanhop, a small juell of golde with ophall in the mydds, set abowte with small rubyes and a perle pendant.
- Item, a juell of golde, being a woman ennamuled, called Virtute, a paire of compassis in one hande, and a greene garlande in the other, standing upon a raynebowe, the boddy garneshed with sparks of diamunds and rubyes.
- Item, a juell of golde, being a fawcon and a phesaunt, garneshed with rubyes, diamunds, emeralds, and perles.
- Item, a juell, being a lampe with a harte in a flame of fyer, garneshed with two saphers, diamunds, aubyes, and ophalls, and a sarpent of ophall with a ruby pendant, set with six small perles and one perle pendant.
- Item, a juell, being a lylly of golde, with a butterflye in the same, and a sea crabbe, garneshed with small ophalls, rubys, and diamunds, with rooses of mother-of-perle and sparks of rubyes.
Some pendants in the New Year's Gifts to the Queen, 1578-9:
- By therle of Leycetour, Master of the Horses, a verey feyer juell of golde, being a clocke fully furnished with small diamonds pointed, and a pendaunte of golde, diamonds, and rubyes, very smale; and upon eche side a lozenge diamonde, and an apple of golde enamuled grene and russet.
- By therle of Warwyck, a juell of golde, being a very great tophas set in gold, ennamuled with 8 perles pendant.
- By therle of Oxforde, a very feyer juell of golde, wherein is a helmet of golde and small diamonds furnished, and under the same is five rubyes, one bigger then threst, and a small diamond brokenne; and all threst of the same juell furnesshed with small diamonds.
- By therle of Ormonde, a very fayre juell of golde, whearin are three large emeraldes sett in roses white and redd, one bigger than the other twoo; all the rest of the same juell garnished with roses and flowers enamuled, furnished with very smale dyamonds and rubyes; aboute the edge very smale perles; and in the bottome is parte of a flower-de-luce garnished with smale diamondes, rubyes, and one sapher, with three meane pearles pendaunte, two of them smale; the backsyde a flower-de-luce enamuled greene.
- By the Lorde Henry Hawarde, a juell of golde, being a ded tre with mysaltow, set at the rote with sparks of diamonds and rubys.
- By the Lady Barones Howard, jun. a juell of golde, garnesshed with rubys and diamonds, and thre smale perles pendant.
- By the Lady Barrones Wharton, a juell of golde, wherein is a parret hanging, garnesshed with small diamonds, and a cluster of perle pendaunt lacking a ffysshe on thone syde.
- By the Lady Stafforde, a juell of golde, being an agate garnished with golde, sett about with sparks of rubyes and diamonds, with a smale perle pendaunt.
- By Sir Henry Sydney, Lorde Deputie of Irelande, a feyer juell of golde, with a Dyana, fully garnisshed wythe dyamonds, one biggar than the rest, three rubyes, two pearles, and a pearle pendante; the backsyde a ship.
- By Sir Henry Lee, a juell of golde, being a faire emeraude, cut lozanged hartwise.
- By Mr. Foulke Grevill, a smale juell, being a lambe of mother-of-perle, garnished with two smale dyamonds, two smale rubies, and three perles pendante.
- By Charles Smythe, a small juell, being a salamaunder, a smale ruby, two smale dyamonds, and three smale perles pendaunte.
- Design for a pendant jewel by Etienne Delaune
- Pendant in the shape of a caravel, Spain, 1580s-1590s
- Queen Elizabeth: The Sieve Portrait (wearing a pendant) by Quentin Metsys the Younger, c. 1583
- Pendant in the shape of a salamander, Spain, before 1588
Some pendants in the New Year's Gifts to the Queen, 1588-9:
- By the Barronesse Cheney, a small jewell of gold sett wyth fyve diamounds of sundry cutts without foyle, and three small pearles pendaunt.
- By Sir Thomas Hennage, one jewell of gold, like an Alpha and Omega, with sparks of diamonds.
- By Mrs. Mary Ratcliffe, a jewell of gold sett with a stone without a foyle, called Incentabella.
Pendants with miniature portraits
- Pendant in the shape of a toad, France, late 16th century; also another view
- Pendant: IHS, northern Europe, late 16th century
- The Pasfield Jewel (in the shape of a pistol), England, late 16th century
- Reliquary medallion, Lombardy, c. 1590-1600
- Frances Walsingham, countess of Essex, and her son Robert, later the third Earl of Essex by Robert Peake the Elder, 1594
- Locket with inscription for John Monson, England, c. 1597
Some pendants in the New Year's Gifts to the Queen, 1599-1600:
- By th Countes of Northumberland, one jewell of golde, set with a longe white topaz, and one longe pearle pendante.
- By the Lorde Burghley, one jewell of golde, with a long table sapher without foile, havinge eight small dyamons about yt, and one pearle pendant.
- By the Lady Cheeke, one jewell of golde lyke a starre, garnished with sparkes of dyamons of sondry cuttes, and one small pearle pendante.
- By Sir Robert Cecill, Pryncipall Secretory, 7 sprygges of golde, garnished with sparkes of rubies, dyamons, and perles pendante, a jewell of golde lyke a honter's horne, with a stone called a ... garnished with small rubyes, and a small pearle pendante.
- By Sir Edwarde Stafforde, one jewell of golde, garnished with two spynnelles and sparkes of dyamondes about yt, and 3 small pendantes with like sparkes of dyamons.
- Portrait of Elizabeth Brydges, 1589; note the pendants in her hair, on her sleeves, and on her collar
- Portrait of a woman of the Talbot Family, 1598; one pendant is hung from a necklace, the other appears to be pinned to her gown or suspended from a longer chain
- Pendant of a mermaid, late 16th/early 17th century
- Pendant with a Man Riding a Sea Monster, Netherlands, c. 1600
- Pendant in the shape of a ship, France, c. 1600
- Pendant with a camel, c. 1600
- Pendant with a dog, Spain, early 17th century
- Pendant in the shape of a bird, possibly made in South America in the early 17th century
Pendants in early baroque/rococo style
(I’m sure there’s a better way to describe these, but they do seem to be part of a style that ought to be grouped together. The background generally features either a swirling vines or a more straightforward architectural design, with a smaller solid [usually three-dimensional, often enamelled] figure in front of it.)
Vine background:
- Pendant with Caritas (Charity), Nuremburg, c. 1576-1600
- Pendant (at right), Nuremburg, c. 1580-1590
- Design for a pendant jewel with an owl attributed to Theodor de Bry, c. 1580-1590
- Pendant with the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Germany, 16th century
- Pendant with clasped hands, made in southern Germany c. 1580-1600
- Pendant with symbols of love and marriage, probably Germany, c. 1600
- Pendant with Cupid drawing an arrow, southern Germany, c. 1600
- Pendant in a portrait of a noblewoman by Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1617
- Pendant with a personification of Fortitude, German, c. 1625-1650
Architectural background:
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