Devotional enamelled gold pendant with pained image of St Jerome and Mary on the obverse side.The paintings are under rock crystal. To justify the wearing of enamelled gold jewellery it was wise to use a religious theme. Hence the terminology “Devotional jewellery “
Probably Italian ca 1660.
Measurements : 38 x 32 mm
In the legend St.Jerome is said to be giving a lecture to his students in Bethlehem when a limping lion came to him. While the others fled, the saint welcomed the lion. He examined the injured foot and extracted the thorn he found there.
