Filigree and Bezoar Stones.
(Post in Preparation).
Bezoars are a subject in themselves - I don't intend to go into it at this point other than to present a few examples with filigree mounts.
see https://wellcomecollection.org/works/baya95pq
see - https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/184795
see also - THE BEZOAR STONE: A NATURAL WONDER IN THE NEW WORLD
Luis Millones Figueroa, Hispanófila, No. 171 (JUNIO 2014), pp. 139-156 (18 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43808791
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A Bezoar Stone in a Gold Filigree setting.
Late 16th Century?
It seems that in the past these remarkable objects have been described as from Goa.
Hugo Miguel Crespo of the University of Lisbon states that there is no current evidence that Filigree was manufactured in Goa in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Kunstkammer.
Currently exhibited: Ambras Castle, Innsbruck
Unterschloss, Kunstkammer.
Approx. 9cms diam
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The Duke of Alba Bezoar Stone.
In a Gold Filigree Setting.
L. 16,2 cm
Currently exhibited:
Art History Museum, Kunstkammer, Vienna.
https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/87197/?offset=12&lv=list
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11,6 cm × 7,6 cms.
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Gold Mounted Bezoar and Bowl.
17th Century ?
14 cm, x 17 cm. H. 6,9 cm
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Several Bezoar stones from The treasury chamber of the
Wittelsbacher located in the Munich Residenz.
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