Pair of quartz and paste pendant earrings, Mid 18th Century, probably Iberian

Of girandole design, suspending foil backed quartz drops from surmounts set with variously cut paste stones, fitted case.

Foil backed quartz bright pink, some showing loss of colour to foiling. Paste stones with abrasions to facet edges. Abrasions and slight tarnish to mounts consistent with age and wear, replacement hook fittings to reverse, top link soldered shut, no longer articulated, both earrings with traces of solder to reverse. Fitted case, signs of age and wear.
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