Haphazard Trompe l'Oeil Pendant

This pendant, inspired by the painting "Trompe l'Oeil with Trumpet, Celestial Globe and Proclamation by Frederik III" by Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, is a submission for the National Gallery of Denmark jewelry contest.  Trompe l'Oeil, or 'deception of the eye,' is an artistic technique dating from ancient Greece and refers to the brilliant use of perspective by painters to imitate three-dimensionality. Because 3D-printing creates actual three-dimensionality, this necklace deceives the eye by suspending the various objects (a string of beads, a trumpet, a globe and a conch shell) in a seemingly impossible, seemingly unsupported arrangement. This haphazard disorder is a hallmark of still life painting and can be observed in many paintings by Gijsbrechts.

If you would like to purchase a chain along with this pendant, please click on the "ADD A CHAIN" button below the material dropdown. The necklace is designed so that the chain is threaded through two loops on the top of the piece; a smaller chain loop with an internal diameter of 5mm x 5mm and a larger chain loop with an internal diameter of 5mm x 10mm.