Lot 32 Dα

An assorted lot of shell cameo jewellery

Five pieces of 9k gold and gilt metal jewellery with shell cameos: Gilt metal tiara with Neoclassical portraits (15 x 5.5 cm in total), a brooch with a finely carved figure of Bacchus (7 x 6 cm in total), a brooch with a mythological scene (5.5 x 7 cm in total), a brooch with a gilt framed head of Medusa after Saulini, and a brooch with a gold framed double portrait of a couple (5.5 x 5 cm in total). One brooch with London hallmarks. Minor flaws.
19th C.