For a bangle pierced with a pattern of undulating fishes by Robert Phillips see Christie's, 1 May, 1985, lot 64 The idea of a fish motif in jewellery is not new as there is a 17th Century ring in the British Museum with a hoop formed from brightly enamelled fish (cf. O.M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Finger Rings in the British Museum (1912) no.2012) and a necklace designed as undulating fish that is depicted in a portrait by Francisco Pacheo of circa 1616 (cf. P. Muller, Jewels in Spain (1972) no.172