An impressive cabochon emerald, gold and enamel dragon pendant

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An impressive cabochon emerald, gold and enamel dragon pendant
In the Spanish 16th Century style, the dragon elaborately decorated with cabochon and table cut emeralds, the scaly body picked out in green and white enamel with coloured detail, the bared jaws with articulated tongue, the twin suspension chains with pearl drop, 11cm. high, in fitted case

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Cf. H. Tait (ed.) Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, 1986, p.141, no.23 footnote in which the author discusses similar pendants set with cabochon stones. For a design of a winged dragon pendant dated circa 1777 cf. P. Muller, Jewels in Spain, 1972, p.57, fig.1

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