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VARIOUS MAKERS AND DATES, SOME INDISTINCTLY MARKED OR APPARENTLY WITHOUT MAKER'S MARKS
Details
A GROUP OF SIXTEEN JEWELLED, GOLD, HARDSTONE AND ENAMEL EGG PENDANTS
VARIOUS MAKERS AND DATES, SOME INDISTINCTLY MARKED OR APPARENTLY WITHOUT MAKER'S MARKS
Each ovoid, in either gold, rhodonite, malachite, lapiz, calcedony, some with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, turquoise, enamel, two-colour gold cagework, a snake-form gold mount, a lattice of gold and diamonds, or bird-form, marked on loops and/or mounts
The duck-form lapis lazuli pendant 1 in. (2.4 cm.) long
VARIOUS MAKERS AND DATES, SOME INDISTINCTLY MARKED OR APPARENTLY WITHOUT MAKER'S MARKS
Each ovoid, in either gold, rhodonite, malachite, lapiz, calcedony, some with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, turquoise, enamel, two-colour gold cagework, a snake-form gold mount, a lattice of gold and diamonds, or bird-form, marked on loops and/or mounts
The duck-form lapis lazuli pendant 1 in. (2.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Property of a Massachusetts Collector; Christie’s, London, 8 June 2010, lot 161.
Special notice
From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such a lot.
Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. Please be advised that a purchasers inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute
grounds for non-payment or cancellation of the sale.
With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating
in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S.,
provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).
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