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Silver necklace, Carlo Giuliano, circa 1885
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- Carlo Giuliano
The articulated necklace designed as a fringe of silver lobes, length 16 inches, signed C.G.
Exhibited
Artists' Jewellery, Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts, Wartski, London, March 1989, no. 78 and Asprey, New York, October 1989, no. 18.
Literature
Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey C. Munn, Artists' Jewellery, Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts, pl. 40.
Catalogue Note
This necklace is likely to be one of a series commissioned by Queen Victoria as an identical one was given by her to the famous soprano Jenny Lind. Often called "The Swedish Nightingale", Lind sang for the Queen on many occasions, sometimes in private. See Margaret Flower, Victorian Jewellery, p. 174, pl. 76.
Although the exact origin of the design for this necklace is unknown, it may have been inspired by ancient Scandinavian jewelry which would have befitted Jenny Lind's origins.
An identical necklace of this type was in the collection of Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne. The princess is wearing the necklace in her watercolor portrait by Blanche Lindsay, illustrated by Gere and Munn, Artists' Jewellery, p. 81, pl. 41.