Compare the setting to exhibited in
Joyaux Renaissance, no. 18 (mid-16th, Milan), and a 16th-century Jupiter cameo in the Cabinet des Medailles. Compare the elaborate interlace strap work and moresques on the reverse to the prints of Etienne Delaune and Jean Gourmont, c. 1550-1575. The enamelling is close to that on the reverse of a cameo pendant published by Scarisbrick (
op. cit., p. 14) and to that on the reverse of cameo in Cabinet des Medailles, (inv. no. BNF.742), also note another published by Hackenbroch (
op. cit., pp. 82, 84-85). Compare also with the cameo with an agate cameo portrait of the Emperor Hadrian in the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris, Cabinet des Medailles (
op. cit. fig. 212).
RELATED LITERATURE
Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, New York, 1979; Joyaux Renaissance: Une Splendeur Retrouvée, exh. cat., Gallerie Kugel, Paris 2000; D. Scarisbrick, Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs, London, 2011