3 juillet 2017
Enamel, gold and pearl ear pendants, 17th - 18th century
Lot 2092. Enamel, gold and pearl ear pendants, 17th - 18th century. Estimate CHF 4 000 / 6 000 (€ 3 700 / 5 560). Sold for CHF 17 000. © Koller
Silver and yellow gold. Rare earrings, each suspending a pendant in form of a polychrome enamelled caravel with golden sails and black enamelled flag with white maltese-cross, joined by a dove-motif in enamel "en rond bosse", head missing, to a hoop, enhanced by applied band-motifs, gold beads, 2 pendants and small natural pearls. Enamel with slight traces of wear. L ca. 8 cm.
Comparable jewellery is known from the Benaki museum in Greece.
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