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Mermaid pendant and chain, gold, ronde-bosse enamel, baroque pearls, table-cut diamonds and a ruby, made by Louis Wièse (1852-1923), Paris, about 1880 . Pendant of a mermaid. Her torso is a baroque pearl, the rest enamelled gold. Her spiralling double tail is set with table-cut diamonds, and on it stands an enamelled gold Cupid holding a flaming torch, with large pearl drop. With original single l…
Subject
- Renaissance revival
- mermaid;cupid;necklace;putti;laurel wreaths
Type of item
- Object Type: necklace
- necklace
- Necklace
Date
- 1885/1894
- 1885/1894
Medium
- Material: enamel
- Material: pearl
- Material:
- enamel (fused coating)
- pearl
- diamond
- Material
- Pearl
- Vitreous enamel
Subject
- Renaissance revival
- mermaid;cupid;necklace;putti;laurel wreaths
Type of item
- Object Type: necklace
- necklace
- Necklace
Date
- 1885/1894
- 1885/1894
Medium
- Material: enamel
- Material: pearl
- Material:
- enamel (fused coating)
- pearl
- diamond
- Material
- Pearl
- Vitreous enamel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- 1885/1894
- 1885/1894
Places
- France
- France
Provenance
- Bequeathed by Deirdre Inches Carr
Identifier
- M.15:1 to 3-1996
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73132
Extent
- Height 37.3cm (including chain folded in half); Width 3.3cm, Depth 1.4cm, Width 3.3cm, Depth 1.3cm, Length 60.1cm (unspecified); Height 8.3cm (from top of enamelled ring on suspension link)
Format
- Color: gold
- Color: red
- gold
- red
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- leather
- gold
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-04-07T12:17:48.782Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-07-01T08:40:15.143Z