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TWO AGATE BROOCHES, BY CASTELLANI
The first with central oval banded agate panel to the rectangular-shaped gold bar with ropework detail, suspending three graduated agate drops, circa 1860, 7.3 cm. high; the second with central Etruscan agate scarab to the gold brooch flanked by circular flowerhead panels, circa 1860, 4.3 cm. wide
Both with addorsed Cs maker's mark for Castellani (2)
The first with central oval banded agate panel to the rectangular-shaped gold bar with ropework detail, suspending three graduated agate drops, circa 1860, 7.3 cm. high; the second with central Etruscan agate scarab to the gold brooch flanked by circular flowerhead panels, circa 1860, 4.3 cm. wide
Both with addorsed Cs maker's mark for Castellani (2)
Literature
S. Weber Soros, S. Walker, Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry, BGC Yale, New Haven, 2004, pp. 335 & 352
Exhibited
The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry exhibition, Somerset House, London, 2005, Nos. 21 & 52
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium