Jewellery collection
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coral and silver alloy
Measurements
150 x 80 mm
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 292422
Summary
A pair of primitive style pendants and earrings en suite. The pendants have a thimble-type upper part with a screw top, a floret pendant below and a chain above. The thimble is encrusted with turquoise and red paste rounds, a piece of coral is in the centre of the floret. The earrings have a long pendant drop below a flat upper piece.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.