Brooch
Collingwood Ltd
Category
Jewellery
Date
1870
Materials
Gold, sardonyx.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 288774.5
Summary
One of a pair of small gold brooches, part of an Egyptian Revival gold parure, c.1870. Brooches designed as the stylised mask of an Egyptian Pharaoh with carved green sard face in a bright yellow gold frame. Possibly converted from earrings.
Provenance
Calke Abbey and contents transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Collingwood Ltd, jeweller