A CONTINENTAL OVAL GOLD AND ENAMEL LOCKET, the cover engraved on one side with the Virgin of Sorrows, a sword piercing her breast, the other with the Pascal Lamb, the interior cover enamelled with three pink roses and black and white chequered band suspending a white cross, all enclosed in wreath and forget-me-not surround with date 1698 and owner's initials OH AM, applied ropework rims, circa 1698 | Christie's

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A CONTINENTAL OVAL GOLD AND ENAMEL LOCKET, the cover engraved on one side with the Virgin of Sorrows, a sword piercing her breast, the other with the Pascal Lamb, the interior cover enamelled with three pink roses and black and white chequered band suspending a white cross, all enclosed in wreath and forget-me-not surround with date 1698 and owner's initials OH AM, applied ropework rims, circa 1698

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A CONTINENTAL OVAL GOLD AND ENAMEL LOCKET, the cover engraved on one side with the Virgin of Sorrows, a sword piercing her breast, the other with the Pascal Lamb, the interior cover enamelled with three pink roses and black and white chequered band suspending a white cross, all enclosed in wreath and forget-me-not surround with date 1698 and owner's initials OH AM, applied ropework rims, circa 1698
5.0cm. high

拍品專文

The locket is believed to have belonged to a German abbess and the distinctive black and white chequering of the band could identify her with the House of Hohenzollern