Jewelry design - Tulip pendant

Archive / Collection of Designs and Drawings

Accession Nr.: KRTF 854
Artist/Maker:
Darilek, Henrik (1878 - 1963) / designer
Place of production: Budapest
Inscription: DH -1906
Materials: paper
Techniques: pencil drawing; watercolour
Dimensions:
height: 8 cm
width: 6,1 cm
The aristocratic ladies of the Tulip Garden Society, the Countesses of the Andrássy, Apponyi, Batthyány, Bethlen, Károlyi and Zichy families were certainly not satisfied with a simple, reserved badge. Henrik Darilek designed a total collection of different jewels, matching the badge. The well-known, stylized tulip motif is dominant on all pieces, combined with tiny hearts on some of them. The colouring is similar to that of the badge: dominant red, white and green, against a dark and light blue base. The drawings were made at the same time, radiating the same principles.

Literature

  • Szerk.: Szilágyi András, Horányi Éva: Szecesszió. A 20. század hajnala. (Az európai iparművészet korszakai.). Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1996. - Nr. 9.264. (Ács Piroska)