The Collection of Jean Louis Chameroy, Offered Without Reserve - 24th October 2023
Lot 196
A garnet necklace, possibly southern France, 1830s
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £3780
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Description
A garnet necklace, possibly southern France, 1830s, composed of clusters of foil-backed rose-cut garnets, suspending a similar floral cluster of garnets from sections of knifewire, to a short back chain and garnet clasp, necklace length 39.5cm, pendant length 5cm
Cf.: Ginny Redington-Dawes with Olivia Collings, Georgian Jewellery 1714-1830, Antique Collectors' Club, Suffolk, 2007, p.28, for a similar garnet fringe necklace made in Perpignan, circa 1830, and Michael CW Fieggan, Traditional French Jewellery, Vol 1: Regional Jewellery, 2021, p.104 no. 559 and 561, for comparable examples. Fieggan quotes historic correspondence stating that the garnets around this time were sourced in Syria and cut in the Jura region of Eastern France.