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A GROUP OF AMETHYST, CITRINE AND AQUAMARINE JEWELLERY
Comprising a necklace and pair of bracelets with oval-cut amethysts and citrines in openwork scroll mounts, a similarly set brooch pendant and pair of composite ear pendants with aquamarine detail and a ferronière with amethyst link centre, circa 1840, necklace 17 in. long, in tooled leather Gothic style case (ferronière with later pendant hook, ear pendants with later screw fitments)
A ferronière was a simple necklace worn across the forehead in fashion between 1820-1850. Cf. H. Vever, La Bijouterie Française an XIX siècle (1908 reprint), vol.I, p.350 (6)
Comprising a necklace and pair of bracelets with oval-cut amethysts and citrines in openwork scroll mounts, a similarly set brooch pendant and pair of composite ear pendants with aquamarine detail and a ferronière with amethyst link centre, circa 1840, necklace 17 in. long, in tooled leather Gothic style case (ferronière with later pendant hook, ear pendants with later screw fitments)
A ferronière was a simple necklace worn across the forehead in fashion between 1820-1850. Cf. H. Vever, La Bijouterie Française an XIX siècle (1908 reprint), vol.I, p.350 (6)