Lot 123
  • 123

Renaissance-revival gold and enamel gem-set pendant, Carlo Giuliano, circa 1880

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Carlo Giuliano
The lozenge-shaped openwork plaque decorated in Elizabethan taste with numerous colored stones including square-cut and oval sapphires, emeralds and rubies, further enhanced with seed pearls and a single diamond in the center, within borders of  white, blue and black enamel, anchored by a pearl drop, the reverse decorated in a pastel floral pattern of pink, blue and white champlevé enamel, the center with a circular compartment for a souvenier, signed C.G. 

Literature

Geoffrey C. Munn, Castellani and Giuliano, Revivalist Jewellers of the 19th Century, pl. 167-168.