拍品专文
Cf. Stronge, Smith and Harle: A Golden Treasury, Jewellery from the Indian Subcontinent, Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd. (1995) p. 72 for a similar necklace
The Property of
A LADY
An elegant antique diamond, pearl and enamel multi strand necklace
细节
An elegant antique diamond, pearl and enamel multi strand necklace
Comprising six pearl strands suspending a series of inverted pear-shaped diamond drops within foiled surrounds and six central diamond plaques with trefoil surmounts all suspending seed pearl drops to the front, the enamelled reverse depicting white flowers on red ground to the diamond set terminals of peacock motif with similar enamelled reverse, North India, 19th century, necklace 55.0cm. long
Comprising six pearl strands suspending a series of inverted pear-shaped diamond drops within foiled surrounds and six central diamond plaques with trefoil surmounts all suspending seed pearl drops to the front, the enamelled reverse depicting white flowers on red ground to the diamond set terminals of peacock motif with similar enamelled reverse, North India, 19th century, necklace 55.0cm. long