UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, Flemish
(active 1580s)

Pendant with a Monkey on a Horn

1580s
Enamelled gold, three diamonds, twenty-four rubies, five emeralds, four pearls
Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

During the Renaissance, the monkey was often understood as an attribute of the sanguine man and it would thus have signified a symbol of passionate courtship.