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GEORGIAN GEMSET MALTESE CROSS PENDANT
Centering upon a rectangular-cut foil-backed red stone with a half pearl surround, on an engraved tricolored gold foliate ground, extending four milky chalcedony arms, the reverse revealing a hair locket with an inscribed frame, circa 1830
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: a comparative is illustrated in, Bennett and Mascetti, Understanding Jewelry, 1989, pg.94
See illustration
Centering upon a rectangular-cut foil-backed red stone with a half pearl surround, on an engraved tricolored gold foliate ground, extending four milky chalcedony arms, the reverse revealing a hair locket with an inscribed frame, circa 1830
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: a comparative is illustrated in, Bennett and Mascetti, Understanding Jewelry, 1989, pg.94
See illustration