拍品 51
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AN ATTRACTIVE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED BRACELET, each of the twelve quatrefoil links with coloured gem centre on black and white enamel ground, circa 1900, in original fitted case with retailer's address C. & A. Giuliano, 115 Piccadilly, London

细节
AN ATTRACTIVE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED BRACELET, each of the twelve quatrefoil links with coloured gem centre on black and white enamel ground, circa 1900, in original fitted case with retailer's address C. & A. Giuliano, 115 Piccadilly, London
19.0cm. long
By Carlo & Arthur Giuliano, signed with incuse initials

拍品专文

The stones in the bracelet (jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sard, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth and amethyst) are mentioned in the Book of Revelations, Chaper 21, vv.19-21. They are also thought to symbolise the
twelve apostles. For a similar bracelet cf. G. Munn, Castellani and Giuliano (1984) no.141