A GEORGE IV JEWELLED AND VARI-COLOURED GOLD HEART-SHAPED PENDANT, the yellow gold body chased with bunches of grapes and green gold vine foliage, one side with the message 'Regard' in coloured gems around the keyhole, the other with a gemset flowerhead, the hinged cover with nailhead ornament around the rims and glazed interior, the triple suspension chains with pendant vari-coloured gold miniature key, circa 1830

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A GEORGE IV JEWELLED AND VARI-COLOURED GOLD HEART-SHAPED PENDANT, the yellow gold body chased with bunches of grapes and green gold vine foliage, one side with the message 'Regard' in coloured gems around the keyhole, the other with a gemset flowerhead, the hinged cover with nailhead ornament around the rims and glazed interior, the triple suspension chains with pendant vari-coloured gold miniature key, circa 1830
4.0cm. overall height

Lot Essay

INDENTFor further information on the 'language of stones' see S. Bury, Jewellery 1789-1910 (1991) pp.144,145 where it states that the fashion for jewellery carrying hidden messages spelt out in the initial letters of gems was at its most popular in the 1820s and 1830s before being revived in the 1880s and lasting into the Edwardian era

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