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AN IMPRESSIVE, NEO-RENAISSANCE GOLD, GARNET, EMERALD AND ENAMEL HIPPOCAMP AND RIDER PENDANT
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AN IMPRESSIVE, NEO-RENAISSANCE GOLD, GARNET, EMERALD AND ENAMEL HIPPOCAMP AND RIDER PENDANT
The body of the hippocamp with chased and engraved detail decorated with guilloché polychrome enamel decoration, set on each side with a large cabochon garnet, the head, neck, tail and chest set with smaller garnet collets, the head with white enamel teeth and eyes, the Indian rider with red and white enamel skirt, to twin chain-link suspension with cabochon emerald collet spacers suspending a central garnet bead drop to a plain loop suspension, circa 1890, probably German, 9.5cm
The body of the hippocamp with chased and engraved detail decorated with guilloché polychrome enamel decoration, set on each side with a large cabochon garnet, the head, neck, tail and chest set with smaller garnet collets, the head with white enamel teeth and eyes, the Indian rider with red and white enamel skirt, to twin chain-link suspension with cabochon emerald collet spacers suspending a central garnet bead drop to a plain loop suspension, circa 1890, probably German, 9.5cm
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This pendant was inspired by Spanish examples produced during the late 16th century, for a similar renaissance pendant from the Waddeston Bequest , British Museum, C.f. Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, London, 1979, p. 325, plate 858 A and the Waddeston Bequest Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum, by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild M.P. London, 1898 no 156, pl 37.