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Details
A 19th century Neo-Renaissance gold, emerald, ruby and cultured pearl pendant
Modelled as a lizard with buff-top emerald graduated five stone back and single cabochon ruby head, the body realistically engraved with cross hatched detail with traces of white enamel, the lizards underbelly with additional engraved detail with some white enamel, suspending a single pear-shaped cultured pearl drop to a twin chain-link suspension and additional later cultured pearl drop, 6.9cm long
Modelled as a lizard with buff-top emerald graduated five stone back and single cabochon ruby head, the body realistically engraved with cross hatched detail with traces of white enamel, the lizards underbelly with additional engraved detail with some white enamel, suspending a single pear-shaped cultured pearl drop to a twin chain-link suspension and additional later cultured pearl drop, 6.9cm long
Literature
Cf. J. Kugel, Joyaux Renaissance Une Splendeur Retrouvée, Paris, 2000, pl. 43, for similar pendant dated to the last quarter of the 16th century
Special Notice
Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. Please be advised that a purchasers inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute
grounds for non-payment or cancellation of the sale.
With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating
in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S.,
provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).