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A SPANISH OR ITALIAN FILIGREE ENAMELLED GOLD-MOUNTED ROCK-CRYSTAL TALISMANIC PENDANT 'MANO FICO'
Lot 434

A SPANISH OR ITALIAN FILIGREE ENAMELLED GOLD-MOUNTED ROCK-CRYSTAL TALISMANIC PENDANT 'MANO FICO'

PROBABLY LATE 16TH CENTURY

Closed4 June 2013

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GBP 22,500

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A SPANISH OR ITALIAN FILIGREE ENAMELLED GOLD-MOUNTED ROCK-CRYSTAL TALISMANIC PENDANT 'MANO FICO'
PROBABLY LATE 16TH CENTURY
Modelled as a hand gesture, the cylindrical mount enamelled in turquoise, white and green, with suspension loop
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high

Specialist note

Comparable pendants can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 1982.60.394, in P. Muller, Jewels in Spain 1500-1800, Madrid 2012, fig. 110-113, pp. 75-76 and similar enamelled mounts are illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich, 1979, p. 332, nos. 886-890.