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19TH CENTURY
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A CONTINENTAL GOLD, ENAMEL, PEARL AND GEM-SET PENDANT
19TH CENTURY
Circular, the openwork back plate set with twenty-six table-cut rubies, surmounted by a red and white champlevé enamel cartouche decorated with seed pearls and a collet-set table-cut emerald, the sides mounted with translucent blue enameled C-scrolls, the center affixed with gold and enamel drapery swags, and a white champlevé enamel figure of a pelican in her piety, her breast mounted with a cabochon spinel and collet-set emeralds mounted to her outstretched wings, the reverse enameled in black, white, blue and green basse-taille enamel, two pendant pearls and three collet-set table-cut rubies and pearl pendants below, apparently unmarked
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) long
19TH CENTURY
Circular, the openwork back plate set with twenty-six table-cut rubies, surmounted by a red and white champlevé enamel cartouche decorated with seed pearls and a collet-set table-cut emerald, the sides mounted with translucent blue enameled C-scrolls, the center affixed with gold and enamel drapery swags, and a white champlevé enamel figure of a pelican in her piety, her breast mounted with a cabochon spinel and collet-set emeralds mounted to her outstretched wings, the reverse enameled in black, white, blue and green basse-taille enamel, two pendant pearls and three collet-set table-cut rubies and pearl pendants below, apparently unmarked
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) long
Provenance
The Collection of the Esterházy Family
Literature
László Mravik, "Sacco di Budapest:" Depredation of Hungary 1938-1949, 1998, illus. fig. 20029, p. 340
C. Pulasky, E. Radisics, and E. Molinier, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'orfèvrerie ayant figuré à l'Exposition de Budapest, Vol. I, Budapest, 1888, pp. 17-18, pl. 9
C. Pulasky, E. Radisics, and E. Molinier, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'orfèvrerie ayant figuré à l'Exposition de Budapest, Vol. I, Budapest, 1888, pp. 17-18, pl. 9
Exhibited
Exhibition of Goldsmiths' Work, Museum of Applied Art, Budapest, 1884, Rm. III, Gc. V, No. 41
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