Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A two-row yellow gold fine-link necklace, c1900, suspending twenty-three assorted egg pendants and two rabbit pendants, including a reverse-carved crystal intaglio egg depicting the lamb of God wearing a pink bow with bell; a pierced gold pomander-style egg with pink enamel; a rose quartz egg centred with a faceted crystal rondel; a carved hardstone rabbit pendant; a small plain gold egg set with three pear-shaped turquoise and a diamond; an egg with green guilloche enamel and painted with small pink roses in the style of the famous Rose Trellis egg by Fabergé; a gold egg set with a cabochon blue stone with hinged locket compartment; a gold egg set with a blue stone and with a rabbit emerging from the upper section; an egg with lilac guilloche enamel and painted with a four-leaf clover; a small gold Cupid pendant holding a sign; a French bloodstone egg with hinged locket compartment; an egg with gold strap centre section chased with pigs and trefoils of rose-cut diamonds with Austrian marks; a hammered yellow gold egg marked PÂQUES and four pear-shaped sapphires and a diamond quatrefoil design to the other side opening to reveal two glazed locket compartments; a yellow gold egg with push button spring loaded cover opening to reveal a figure of a harlequin with enamel decoration, French control marks, and various other egg pendants, approximately 120cm long