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Lot 6

A colourless beryl and paste Devant de Corsage,
Portuguese, third quarter of the 18th Century

27 April 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A colourless beryl and paste Devant de Corsage, Portuguese, third quarter of the 18th Century

Designed as a ribbon bow, the stylised flower head motif issuing from the centre, set throughout with vari-cut foiled colourless beryl, suspending a pear-shaped pendant, composed of foiled paste in closed-back settings, mounted in silver, may be worn as a brooch or pendant, length 10.3cm, cased

Footnotes

For similar examples of Portuguese jewels of this period, see d'Oray, Leonor, "Five Centuries of Jewellery", Zwemmer, London/Instituto Portugues de Museus, Lisbon, 1995, pages 84 and 85.

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