Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey

The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd

Royal: a jewelled gold, pearl and ivory presentation locket brooch, probably English, 1883,

Restricted Species

Lot Closed

April 11, 01:52 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

oval, the front decorated with split-pearls interspersed with rose-cut diamonds, surmounted with a pearl and diamond-set laurel wreath below a pearl ribbon mounted with a brooch pin, the reverse inset with an oval portrait miniature of Queen Victoria in three quarter profile, painted on ivory, under glass, the broad frame engraved with a presentation inscription reading: FROM V.R.I. / TO HER GODCHILD / VICTORIA MARJORIE HARRIET MANNERS / DEC 1883, apparently unmarked,

4.4cm., 1 3/4 in. high

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Lofts & Warner, London, An Inventory and Valuation […] At Plas Newydd, Anglesey, 1948, p.125, Jewels, ‘PEARL PENDANT, Formed with half pearls with rose diamonds between, oval shape suspended from pearl bow brooch, miniature of Queen Victoria in back’ (Private Family Archive)

This charming pearl-set locket brooch was presented as a gift from Queen Victoria on the occasion of the birth of her goddaughter Lady Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners (1883-1946), later the Marchioness of Anglesey, on 20 December 1883.

Lady Victoria, eldest daughter of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland and Violet, Duchess of Rutland, was an avid art critic, writer and illustrator. She was like her mother, a talented amateur artist too, some of her drawings feature in this sale as part of lot 75. Among her most famous publications are the first in-depth studies on Johan Joseph Zoffany, published in 1920, and on Angelica Kauffman four years later, both of which she co-authored with the art historian George Charles Williamson. In 1912, Lady Victoria married Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, with whom she had six children.