The Jewish Bible rollerball pen is turned into single resin ivory (coloured) bars and the cap has the same dimensions of the pen shaft. In the shaft Visconti artists have represented the story of the Old Testament with its most significant images: Adam and Eve, Noah’s Arch, David and Goliath, Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Decalogue, while on the cap Visconti has represented the prayer in front of the Wailing Wall, a very important spiritual moment. The head and blind cap, with their 10 lateral facets, remind us of the Decalogue- their form and the engraving in Hebrew on the blind cap recall the two stone tablets. The Holy Graal is hidden inside the blind cap.
Painting Technique: entirely made in Florence and inspired by Dürer’s xylographies, it’s a PAINTED SCRIMSHAW which has never been performed before on a pen and it’s very rare on other objects being a very difficult technique.
According to this technique, resin is drypoint engraved, and then filled in with calcography ink and finally coloured, thanks to the fine artwork of CLAUDIO MAZZI.
The name Visconti has been for the past twenty years a synonym for writing instruments of extraordinary beauty, historically and technologically studied. The fountain pens, rollers and ballpoint pens by Visconti make up a wide range of high quality instruments with a strong identification.
La Couronne du Comte is one of the few Visconti Gold Point Members. A Gold Point Member has extensive knowledge on pens in general and Visconti pens in particular. Every Gold Point Member has to meet the high Visconti standards.
€ 1.900,00