Lot 50
  • 50

Gold, silver, enamel and pearl "renaissance revival" pendant-brooch, circa 1850

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Description

Designed as the figure of Harmony playing a viola flanked by two putti playing a triangle and a harp, two further putti at her feet, within a Renaissance-style canopy, accented with royal blue enamel and 5 seed pearls. With fitted case stamped Hunt & Roskell, Late, Storr & Mortimer, jewellers & goldsmiths to the crown.  

Catalogue Note

Although unsigned, this brooch is nearly identical to a brooches made by Froment-Meurice, illustrated in The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery: 1850-1910, Thomas Heneage & Co. Ltd., London, pp. 84-85, nos. 2 and 3.
Another example is found in
The Art of the Jeweller: A Catalogue of the Hull Grundy Gift to the British Museum, edited by Hugh Tait,  no. 1019.