COLLECTION OF MOURNING BROOCHES, 1790s-1820s

Comprising: three brooches and one pendant each of navette shape containing a sepia and hair miniature of a maiden by a tomb, one with hairline crack, six gold mourning brooches each containing a glazed locket of hair, three pearl mourning brooches each respectively decorated with foil back flat-cut garnets, black enamel and carnelian, a Latin cross pendant set with glazed hair lockets to the obverse, a blue enamel and paste navette brooch depicting a pair of doves on an altar, an emerald and cannetille lyre brooch and a garnet and cannetille crossed arrow brooch, part illustrated (17)