Pendant with chain

The triangular pendant with rounded corners is slightly tipped at the bottom. The surface is rimmed with wire, covered with bright, marbled green enamel. The chain is fit in two rings on the two sides of the top. There are three beads, covered with green eozin glaze, hanging from the bottom. This technique - called aventurine enamel - was used on several jewellery pieces exhibited by P. Horti and S. Hibján at the 1902 Christmas exhibition of the National Hungarian Society for Applied Arts, and also at the Torino International Exhibition in the same year (see Czakó 1902, the ill. on p.102). E. Czakó in his above mentioned article remarks that, apart from the application of mother-of-pearl under enamel, the use of the Zsolnay eozin glaze is also a novelty on jewellery. An identical pendant was exhibited at the 1905 Applied Arts exhibition in Arad, see ill. in Cat. 1905a.