Charles II

Charles II, Restoration, small heart-shaped silver locket [1660], applied bust of Charles right, C - R engraved to either side, base with cupid firing arrow to right, empty of content, 23.5 x 19mm (cf MI pl. XL, 18, obv.; Heckett 138, this piece). Very fine and rare.

The Heckett catalogue describes the base (with imagination) as "stamped with a figure of St. Michael (?)".

Provenance: Ex Greta S. Heckett Collection, Sotheby, 25 May, 1977 (lot 137); ex Helen Farquhar Collection, Glendining, 25 April, 1955 (lot 268, part).