Estimate

2.000 - 3.000

Session 2

22 February 2017

Hammer Price

Description

Gold and gold filigree
Composed of four articulated elements: two representing bows with foiled rose cut topazes, one cross-shaped with chiselled decoration and one filigree pear-shaped element at the bottom
Portugal or Portuguese India, 18th century
(wear signs, loss to one bow and one topaz replaced by paste)

Height: 11,5 cm
35,6 g

Category

Jewellery

Additional Information

Most probably this pendant was the central element of an important rosary
At the Museum of Évora a large gold rosary - from the church of São Mamede in Évora - is kept and the central pendant presents similar techniques and design and its production is attributed, without certainties, to a Goa workshop (inv. 1007)

Provenance:
Former Condessa de Santar collection;
Private Collection, Porto