Makara-shaped Pendant
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- height 8 cm x width 10.5 cm x depth 1.8 cm
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Image provider
- rijksmuseum
- License
- Public Domain
- Credit
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Jewelry Metadata · 99%
The Rijksmuseum classifies the object as a pendant (jewelry).
Subject Matter
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Hybrids and Imaginary Creatures Both · 91%
The title identifies the object as Makara-shaped, while the image shows fantastical animal-like terminals integrated into the pendant's design.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 99%
The pendant's body, terminals, borders, and suspension elements are densely covered with repeated metal ornament and gemstone settings.
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 97%
The central body forms a pronounced arc, and both ends develop into elaborate curled, creature-like forms.
Time Periods
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Pre-20th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The Rijksmuseum dates the object to c. 1600, placing it securely in the pre-twentieth-century period without assigning it more narrowly to the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
Materials
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Gold Metadata · 99%
Gold is listed in the museum's medium description and is visibly used for the mounts, ornament, ring, and chains.
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Gemstone Metadata · 97%
Sapphire and ruby are listed in the museum's medium description; the image visibly shows numerous colored gemstone settings, though the individual stones cannot be identified from the image alone.
Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects
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Musical Instrument Metadata · 98%
The museum classifies the object as a flute, a musical instrument; the catalog provides no dedicated flute category, so the catalog's exact musical-instrument category is used.
Source & rights
anonymous. Makara-shaped Pendant. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.