EditorialWatch Chain Locket. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 29.8 x 22.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper.
EditorialLocket, 14th century, French, Basse taille enamel, silver-gilt, Overall: 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 x 3/8 in. (4.4 x 3.8 x 1cm), Enamels-Basse taille, This pendant once contained a small disk of wax, blessed by the pope during the Easter season and worn as a kind o...
EditorialTwo Medallions, ca. 1420, Made in Paris, France, French, Ivory, polychromy & gilding, (later mount: gilt silver and glass), Overall (Open with Mount): 3 5/8 x 4 1/8 x 9/16 in. (9.2 x 10.5 x 1.4 cm), Ivories, On the left are the Virgin and Child with sa...
EditorialHunting Sword, ca. 1825, Vienna, Austrian, Vienna, Steel, gold, enamel, agate, wood, leather, L. 26 15/16 in. (68.5 cm), Swords, This richly decorated sword was made for one of the counts Hoyos-Sprinzenstein. His enameled coat of arms surmounts the lio...
EditorialMatrices for Sword Mounts, 10th?11th century, Iraqi or Iranian, Copper alloy, Sword guard (.1): H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); W. 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); Wt. 6 oz. (162 g); locket (.2): H. 2 15/16 in. (7.44 cm); W. 2 5/8 in. (6.65 cm); Wt. 4 oz. (119 g); chape (...
EditorialFive guinea jewels: brooch, pendant, locket and chain in pearl, diamond, gold, enamel. Chromolithograph from Edwin Streeter's Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895.