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Object type
Jewellery
Date
Production: 1565 - 1568
Subject(s)
Knights of Malta
Religious Orders
Associated person
Jean de la Valette (1495 - 1568)
Pope Pius V (1504 - 1572)
Associated activity
Commemoration
Honouring
Siege
Associated event
Siege: Great Siege of Malta, 1565 (18 May 1565 - 8 September 1565)
Inscriptions

obverse: PIVS . V . Pont . Max


obverse: UNUM DECEM MILIA VINCIT (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)
Valletta
Malta
References
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
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
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