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OF ROYAL INTEREST: ENAMEL AND SEED PEARL SERPENT BRACELET, CIRCA 1840 image 1
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OF ROYAL INTEREST: ENAMEL AND SEED PEARL SERPENT BRACELET, CIRCA 1840

11 December 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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OF ROYAL INTEREST: ENAMEL AND SEED PEARL SERPENT BRACELET, CIRCA 1840

The coiled serpent composed of hinged links, decorated with cobalt blue enamel and seed pearls, the eyes set with circular cabochon garnets, mounted in gold, inscribed, "Given by Adelaide Queen Dowager to Lady Susan Harcourt on her marriage 1849", inner circumference 5.0cm

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The Collection of Lady Anne Glenconner
Lot 1 - 21

Provenance:
Lady Susan Harcourt (1829-1894), a gift from Queen Adelaide (1792-1849);
Edith Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchelsea and Nottingham (1855-1944);
Lady Muriel Paget (1876-1938);
Pamela Winifred Tennant, Baroness Glenconner (1903-1989);
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner (1926-2010);
Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner (1932-present);


Lady Susan Harcourt (née Holroyd) was the daughter of George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield and Lady Harriet Lascelles. Lady Harriet was an English courtier and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV (1765-1837). Lady Susan was married to the naturalist and Conservative politician, Edward William Vernon Harcourt (1825-1891) in 1849. The bracelet passed from Lady Susan, to her daughter, Edith, Countess of Winchelsea and Nottingham. From Edith, the bracelet was passed to her daughter Lady Muriel Paget (née Finch-Hatton), and then to her daughter Lady Pamela Paget. Lady Pamela gifted the bracelet to her son Colin Tennant, The Lord Glenconner, thence to Lady Glenconner.

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