Jewellery - 30th April 2015

Lot 1305

A silver and enamel photograph frame with Royal interest

Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1100

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Description

A silver and enamel photograph frame with Royal interest, of rectangular form and decorated with pink guilloche enamel. Folding strut support. Applied with a diamond and gem-set bee to the top left corner. By Louis Willmott, London 1907. Glass chipped in one corner. Containing a photograph of Queen Alexandra.

Provenance: Given By Queen Alexandra to her Maid of Honour the Hon. Violet Vivian; Lady Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever (1919-2001) and thence by family descent.