POSSIBLY FRENCH OR ITALIAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY | Two Buttons now Mounted as Brooches

POSSIBLY FRENCH OR ITALIAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Two Buttons now Mounted as Brooches

partially enamelled gold and silver gilt, set with seed pearls and semi precious stones

2.5cm., 1in. and 2.3cm.,⅞in.

The form of the brooches recalls 18th-century jewellery designs in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, illustrated in P. Muller, Jewels in Spain 1500-1800, New York, 1972, p. 158, fig. 241.