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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Jewellery, Rooms 91, The William and Judith Bollinger Gallery

Locket

1850-1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Email en résille on blue glass, mounted in enamelled gold. Hung with a baroque pearl.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Enamelled gold (émail en résille sur verre) and baroque pearl
Brief description
Enamelled gold locket email en résille on blue glass and hung with a baroque pearl, Western Europe, 1850–1900; related to a plaster cast by Alfred André (1839–1919).
Physical description
Email en résille on blue glass, mounted in enamelled gold. Hung with a baroque pearl.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.3cm
  • Width: 3.2cm
  • Depth: 1.3cm
Credit line
Given by Dame Joan Evans
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Somers-Cock, Anna, Princely Magnificence: court jewels of the Renaissance, 1500-1630, V&A, 1980, p.78, cat. 90
Collection
Accession number
M.65-1952

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Record createdMarch 14, 2000
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