A gold and enamel slide depicting Mars and Venus.
French, second half of the 17th century.
Measures 2.9 x 2.4cm.
Weighs 2.5 grams.
The slide is decorated in polychrome enamels, the front w[...]
Remarkable English seal intaglio in quartz 17th century lost by the 1st or 2nd Duke of Ormonde James Buttler near Provins and found in the ground in the same place. Why there? Mystery to be solved! (t[...]
A silver gilt mounted jet Manu Fica amulet.
Spanish, mid 17th century.
Measures 5 x 3 x 1.8cm (excluding loose bail).
Manu Fica as protective amulets have been used since the ancient world, i[...]
A coral and gold rosary.
Sicilian, the pendant dates to the first quarter of the 17th century.
The rosary dates to the early 19th century.
The pendant measures 4.3 x 2.6 x 1.5cm excluding loose[...]
A large glazed silver pendant containing a wooden sculpture of Saint Anthony of Padua.
Spanish Colonial, late 17th - early 18th century.
Measures 10.5 x 4.5 x 1.8cm (height measured excluding [...]
An enamelled gold slide set with a coral cameo of Christ
French, mid 17th century, the coral cameo of Christ is Sicilian and dates to the first half of the 17th century
Measures 4.3 x 3.3cm[...]
Gold and enamel pendant with Christ and the Virgin. French, 17th century.
A gold and enamel double sided devotional pendant painted with the busts of Christ and the Virgin.
Probably originally a p[...]
Chatelaine * in finely chiseled metal, with inset decoration of the profile of King Louis XIV as Roman emperor, head encircled with a laurel wreath, vintage late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries[...]
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