Not currently on display at the V&A

Pendant

1780 - 1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval pendant with a miniature portrait of a young woman wearing a white dress and blue sash. The frame is of pink gold, engraved with two dotted lines. The reverse has a panel of woven hair beneath glass.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Head of a young woman on ivory by Joseph Saunders in a gold frame with a hair compartment on the reverse. England, late 18th or early 19th century.
Physical description
Oval pendant with a miniature portrait of a young woman wearing a white dress and blue sash. The frame is of pink gold, engraved with two dotted lines. The reverse has a panel of woven hair beneath glass.
Dimensions
  • Height: 60.5mm
  • Width: 39mm
  • Depth: 7.5mm
Credit line
Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patricia V. Goldstein
Other numbers
  • LOAN:AMERICANFRIENDS.294-2003 - Previous loan number
  • 245.a - Goldstein Collection number
Collection
Accession number
M.161-2011

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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