Description
Classicist cameo necklace Cast iron, steel wire, black patina, polished steel, gold. Eight graduated medallions, including clasp, with gold-framed antique relief portraits on polished steel, connected by three-strand chains of fine wire mesh. Minimal rusting. L 42 cm. Berlin, attributed to the 1820s. Literature Cf. Arenhövel, Eisen statt Gold, Berlin 1982, cat. No. 294. Cf. Marquard, Schmuck - Klassizismus und Biedermeier 1780 - 1850, Munich 1983, no. 493.
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Classicist cameo necklace Cast iron, steel wire, black patina, polished steel, gold. Eight graduated medallions, including clasp, with gold-framed antique relief portraits on polished steel, connected by three-strand chains of fine wire mesh. Minimal rusting. L 42 cm. Berlin, attributed to the 1820s. Literature Cf. Arenhövel, Eisen statt Gold, Berlin 1982, cat. No. 294. Cf. Marquard, Schmuck - Klassizismus und Biedermeier 1780 - 1850, Munich 1983, no. 493.