Pendant with Virgin and Child

German

On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 14

The design of this pendant served as the insignia for the Schwanenorden, or Order of the Swan, founded in 1443 by Friedrich II, elector of Brandenburg. Several contemporary portraits show similar pendants worn on chains around the neck with a large pearl or other ornament suspended from a loop. The image of the Virgin and Child on the crescent moon, inspired by Revelation, is similar in composition to woodcuts by Hans Baldung Grien, a protégé of Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg.

Pendant with Virgin and Child, Silver and silver gilt, German

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Pendant with Virgin and Child, Silver and silver gilt, German
Pendant with Virgin and Child, Silver and silver gilt, German
Pendant with Virgin and Child, Silver and silver gilt, German

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