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GEORGIAN MALTESE CROSS PENDANT
Centering upon a rectangular-cut foil-backed green beryl and half-pearl square motif, on an engraved cannetille tricolored gold foliate ground, extending four milky chalcedony arms, the reverse revealing a hair locket(slight chip on one of the arms), circa 1830
Cf.S. Bury, Jewellery 1789-1910,(1991), vol. I, pl. 146.
Cf.D Bennett & D. Mascetti,Understanding Jewelry,(1989), pl. 94.
Centering upon a rectangular-cut foil-backed green beryl and half-pearl square motif, on an engraved cannetille tricolored gold foliate ground, extending four milky chalcedony arms, the reverse revealing a hair locket(slight chip on one of the arms), circa 1830
Cf.S. Bury, Jewellery 1789-1910,(1991), vol. I, pl. 146.
Cf.D Bennett & D. Mascetti,Understanding Jewelry,(1989), pl. 94.