Egyptian-revival gold, ruby, diamond and enamel brooch, Carlo Giuliano, 1865-1895

Centering a Nubian head enameled en ronde bosse wearing a headdress of old-mine and rose-cut diamonds surmounted by a cushion-shaped ruby, flanked by a pair of white enamel horses,  their fanciful costumes including plumes and collars in polychrome champlevé and cloisonné enamel, anchored by lotus blossoms, bells and 3 pendant pearls, signed C.G. With original fitted leather case signed C. Giuliano. 

Howard Vaughan

Wartski

Private Collection, Jersey

A Thousand Years of Enamel, Wartski, London, May 18-June 5, 1971, no. 155.

Castellani and Giuliano, Revivalist Jewellers of the Nineteenth Century, Wartski, London, March 1984, no. 84.

Charlotte Gere, Victorian Jewellery Design, pl. 55.

Geoffrey C. Munn, Castellani and Giuliano, Revivalist Jewellers of the 19th Century, pl. 153

Vivienne Becker, Antique and Twentieth Century Jewellery, fig. 14.1

Geoffrey C. Munn, 'The Giuliano Family - Art Jewellers,' Connoisseur, November 1975.