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AN ARCHEOLOGICAL REVIVAL NECKLACE, BY CARLO GIULIANO
Lot 219

AN ARCHEOLOGICAL REVIVAL NECKLACE, BY CARLO GIULIANO

Closed5 June 2013

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GBP 18,750

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AN ARCHEOLOGICAL REVIVAL NECKLACE, BY CARLO GIULIANO
Composed of a continuous series of stylised cicada design pendants, with beaded terminals, suspended from gold coils over the loop-in-loop chain, 1874-1895, 38.5cm long, original maker's case
With maker's marks CG for Carlo Giuliano

The Judith H. Siegel Collection

Specialist note

When removing the velvet base from the fitted case of this necklace Giuliano can be seen written in pencil across the wooden lining. A similar inscription is illustrated by Munn in Castellani and Giuliano, Revivalist Jewellers of the 19th Century, pl.75