Designed as a series of clusters, each set with a cushion-shaped diamond within a double border of rose diamonds, spaced by claw-set cushion-shaped diamonds and suspending a similar drop shaped pendant, length approximately 395mm, French assay marks and maker's mark for Oscar Massin, several small diamonds deficient.
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Cf.: Erik Schoonhoven,
A Very Parisian Affair: Oscar Massin’s Jewels in the Dutch Royal Collection, Jewellery History Today Issue 31, Winter 2017, London, for Massin’s portrait diamond brooch in the collection of the Dutch Royal Family.
Cf.: Shirley Bury,
Jewellery 1789-1910: The International Era, Volume II: 1862-1910, Antique Collector’s Club, 1991, pg. 468 and 571, for illustrations of some of Massin’s naturalistic design drawings.
For additional information on Oscar Massin and examples of his work, see Henri Vever, French Jewelry of the Nineteenth century, Paris, 1906-8, English translation by Katherine Purcell, Thames & Hudson, London, 2001.