Sunday, January 6, 2013

Mastery of Design: Pendant in the Form of a Non-Working Watch, 18th Century


Pendant
Eighteenth Century
Crown Copyright
The Royal Collection
Image Courtesy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II


This circular pendant is designed to look like a watch. Made by a now unknown Eighteenth-Century jeweler, the bezel is bordered by rubies spaced with white enamel spheres which simulate pearls. The obverse shows a false clock face set of gold and enamel behind glass. The reverse is adorned with a foliate pattern of green and gilt enamel. From the Collection of Lady Carnarvon, the pendant was given to the Royal Collection, I’d say, sometime in the 1930s.


Crown Copyright
The Royal Collection
Image Courtesy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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