{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O248574"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O248574/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CE1013/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CE1013/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2009CE1013","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2015HN1091","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KV7852","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KV7476","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O248574/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O248574","accessionNumber":"5294","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[{"title":"Design for two egg holders","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"Erasmus Hornick (d. 1583) was a Flemish goldsmith, printmaker, and designer. He worked from c. 1555–83 and found increasing success in Augsburg, Nuremberg, and finally in Prague at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, alongside many other Flemish, German, and Italian artists. Although his work was in keeping with his contemporaries, Hornick’s work was among the most adventurous of the Mannerist style. \r\n\r\nThese 276 drawings, mostly just in pen, ink and wash, are mostly attributed to Hornick and his coterie, though some have been identified as the work of the famed goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer (1507/08–1585) and others as copies of the work of Italian painter Francesco Salviati (1510–63).","physicalDescription":"Designs for two oviform egg holders. The top design is decorated with rings and a central winged mask. The bottom holder design is supported by two leomorphic figures.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Hornick, Erasmus","id":"AUTH318846"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"AAT54196"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pen tinted with sepia.","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009CE1013","2015HN1091","2018KV7852","2018KV7476"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC (VA)","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"M","shelf":"5","box":"B"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawings","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Prague","id":"x29087"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1582-3","earliest":"1582-01-01","latest":"1583-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"405","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"250","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"onatto","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Both holders."},{"content":"saluri","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"bottom holder."},{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Briquet watermark 6299 or 6300."}],"objectHistory":"One of a number of designs (5131 to 5406) for gold- and silver-smiths' work by Erasmus Hornick and other Flemish, German and Italian artists who worked c. 1582-3 at the court of Rudolph II in Prague.\r\n\r\nAcquired as a a collection of 276 old designs in a small folio volume with vellum cover. Purchased from J M Whitehead as per Board minute Dec 3 1867. Price £200-0-0.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Design for two egg holders, one has a gorgon's head. Pen tinted with sepia.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Silke Reiter, <i>Erasmus Hornick : ein Goldschmied, Radierer und Zeichner des 16. Jahrhunderts</i> (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2012) "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, “The Drawings and Engraved Ornament of Erasmus Hornick,” <i>The Burlington Magazine</i>, 110.784 (1968), pp. 383–89"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, <i>Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism, 1540-1620</i> (London, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976)"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"Mannerist Goldsmiths: I (Italian sources) and some drawings and designs\" <i>Connoisseur</i> April 1962, pp. 157 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"Mannerist Goldsmiths: II France and the School of Fontainebleau. Part 1\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 152, April 1963, pp. 223ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"Mannerist Goldsmiths: II France and the School of Fontainebleau. Part 1\" Part 2. <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 153, May 1963, pp. 11 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths: Germany. Part I. Nürnberg.\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 164, February 1967, pp. 78 ff. "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths: Germany. Part II. Wenzel Jamnitzer of Nürnberg.\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 164, February 1967, pp. 148 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths: Germany. Part I. Part III. Erasmus Hornick and the Goldsmiths of Augsburg.\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 164, February 1967, pp. 216 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths: Germany. Part I. Part IV. The followers of Wenzel Jamnitzer.\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 165,  May–Aug. 1967, pp. 162 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths 3: Antwerp. Part I.\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 156. May–Aug, 1964, pp. 92 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths 3: Antwerp. Part II.\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 156. May–Aug, 1964, pp. 164 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths 3: Antwerp. Part III.\" <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 156. Aug, 1964, pp. 251 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Mannerist Goldsmiths 3: Antwerp. Part IV. Italian influences in the designs of Erasmus Hornick.” <i>Connoisseur</i> Vol. 158, Jan.–April, 1965, pp. 144 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"Some spurious antique vase designs of the sixteenth century.\" <i>Burlington Magazine</i> June 1972, Vol. 114, No. 831, pp. 378–86. "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Hayward, \"The Drawings and Engraved ornament of Erasmus Hornick.\" <i>Burlington Magazine</i> July 1968, Vol. 110, No. 784, pp. 383–9."}],"production":"By Erasmus Hornick (died 1583) or another Flemish, German or Italian artist.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"eggs","id":"x36242"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["5294"],"accessionNumberNum":"5294","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-08-14","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-11","availableToBook":false}}