This object is on display
- Object type
- Jewellery
- Date
- Production: 1565 - 1568
- Subject(s)
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Knights of Malta
Religious Orders - Associated person
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Jean de la Valette (1495 - 1568)
Pope Pius V (1504 - 1572) - Associated activity
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Commemoration
Honouring
Siege - Associated event
- Siege: Great Siege of Malta, 1565 (18 May 1565 - 8 September 1565)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: PIVS . V . Pont . Max
obverse: UNUS DECEM MILLIA VICIT (One conquers ten thousand)
reverse: IOAN LAVALETTE.MAG.M.SS.SEPULR.
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 125 x 108 x 5mm
- Materials and technique
- Rock crystal and gilt bronze
- Production place
- Italy
- Related place(s)
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Valletta
Malta - References
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Magro Conti, Emmanuel, and Godwin Vella eds. 1565: The Great Siege of Malta Exhibition. Heritage Malta and Malta Libraries, 2015.
Page 118
Foakes, Tom, ed. Treasures: Faith, Care, Valour: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 2019.
Page 158
Chadour-Sampson, Beatriz, and Sandra Hindman. "Living nobly": Jewelry of the Renaissance Courts. Les Enluminures, 2020
Pages 9-12
Glozier, Matthew. "Lady Emma Hamilton, Tsar Paul of Russia and the British Knights of his Order of Malta." In One St John: The International History Journal of the Most Venerable Order of St John 7 (2022): 7-35. https://www.stjohninternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/onestjohnvol.7.pdf
Page 25 - Exhibition history
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1565 - The Great Siege of Malta, Heritage Malta, 5 September 2015-6 December 2015
Suleiman the Magnificent and the Knights of St John, British Museum, 18 February 1988-30 May 1988 - Credit line
- Gift of Colt N. Dunscombe, 1972
- Catalogue number
- 1693