A VICTORIAN DIAMOND AND ENAMEL PENDANT

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A VICTORIAN DIAMOND AND ENAMEL PENDANT
The oval pendant with central old-cut diamond flowerhead motif within a similarly set floral and scroll border, on a green guilloché enamel ground, to the diamond-set foliate surmount and pendant loop, the reverse engraved 'To The Countess of Charlemont from her sincere friend Victoria R' closed-set in silver and gold, mid-19th Century, 6.8cm long, with fitted S.J. Phillips Ltd. case

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Lot Essay

Anne Caulfeild, Lady Charlemont (1780-1876), was the first Lady of the Bedchamber appointed by Queen Victoria apon her accession, serving in that capacity between 1837 and 1854. Lady Charlemont was a celebrated beauty of her time, Lord Byron writing of her in his 'Letter on the Rev. W. L. Bowles's Strictures on Pope'

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