Cf. A.Héjj-Détári, Hungarian Jewellery of the Past (1965) pl.26 for a silver-gilt pendant featuring a similar group of a stag with female rider. Cf. also La Collection Spitzer (London, 1891) vol.III, no.34, pl.V for another pendant of a stag with female rider for which a design exists among the Vasters drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V.A.M. E2801-1919 E2855-1919) illustrated Princely Magnificence catalogue HG3
The idea for this composition may possibly derive from Renaissance engravings by the Netherlandish artist Adrian Collaert, whose depictions of the senses with their attributes included hearing with a lute and a fawn. See F. Kermode, Renaissance Essays (1973) p.88