Contemporary Arts and Crafts Pewter Mirror with blue Cabuchons

Beautiful Cantagalii Old Italian pottery Iznik style bold and rich coloured Tulips and Carnations typical of Iznik. Signed in the bottom with blue Cock Very ...

ENAMEL MINIATURE SILVER TABLE £425 £1200 Edwardian miniature silver and enamel table box. Modelled as an occasional table on turned supports joined bay a stretcher. The enamel top with 18th century figures in a landscape...

Enamel Blue diamond 18 k attractive fob watch. Beautiful watch is in very good condition. All quality bleu enamel on 18 k case and bezel and the dial in two tones. Attractive dial i...

Guido Gambone Unusual Vase In amazing condition, fully signed with Donkey marks ovoid shape knobbed neck, painted with a geometric face in aubergine and mushroom on blue ground, P...

Rolex Vintage watch in amazing condition with very beautiful luminious numbers and hands. Luminious numbers were considered very useful in those days because the were more visible in...

Rolex Ref 4498 Rare rolex chronometer steel case with attractive unusual lugs. Beautiful dial is with raised gold Roman numerals and dots. Signed Rol...

This spectacular Vessel features an African Spessartite Garnet set in an 18k Gold bezel with a stripe of green champleve Enamel. It’s perched on top of a cobalt blue guilloche Enamel...

ESTIMATED RETAIL: $5,040 YOUR PRICE: $3,100 - Cabochon emerald, diamond and blue enamel pendant in 18k, with over 3 carats in green emeralds and 0.50 carat in diamond accents. Made i...

A Russian Silver and Blue Guilloche Enamel Locket, Henrik Wigstrom, He was working for Faberge as an enameler. Has hallmarks. Dimensions 2 ½ inches wide 2 ½ inches tall half inch...

Box in 18 kt yellow gold, blue enamel, hinges with diamonds and clasp with diamonds.

A fine antique Austrian rock crystal, silver, and enamel pricket candlestick. In the Renaissance Revival style. With sections of rock crystal joined by silver (and one brass?) bands. The metal bands have finely detailed blue enamel decoration throughout. Apparently unmarked. Simply a wonderful rock crystal candlestick! Date: Mid to Late-19th Century, or earlier. Overall Condition: It is in overall good, as-pictured, used estate condition with no repairs noted. Condition Details: There are some losses to the enameling, some bends & indentations to the silver pricket...

Pendant with Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven Western Europe, Southern Germany (?), Italy (?), c. 1550-1560 Gold, enamel, diamonds, and pearls Weight 13.2 gr; Length 36.9 x 31.2 mm (incl. pearls) This sumptuous image exudes regal power. It portrays the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven wearing a dress and crown studded with seven large diamonds and set against a translucent, rich blue celestial background. Far removed from the tender, humble Virgin seen in German and Netherlandish artworks of the period, she is a majestic ruler, mouth sternly set, head tilted upward, and face in full profile. The oval pendant cast in high gold relief with a central medallion, the single figure filling the space, echoes jewelry portraits of the aristocracy during the Renaissance, which similarly offset the ruler’s image against a blue field composed of enamel or lapis lazuli, symbolic of divine power Only the rays of the shining gold halo that emerge behind the Virgin’s head and her long flowing hair (instead of neatly coiffed) distinguish her from female ruler portraits of the period. Three studded pearls, forming an axis, also recall pendants of European rulers. Wealth, royal status, and divine power come together in this opulent pendant. Portraits of the period show similar small oval pendants worn by women in the square of the garment or by men nestled inside multiple chains below the base of the neck. PROVENANCE European Private Collection LITERATURE Compare images from ancient Rome, for example a sardonyx cameo with female head (Kugel 2000, no. 18; Milan, c. 1550), and a pendant with gold, pearls, and enamel in the Staatliche Museum Kassel (Schmidberger/Richter 2001, no. 43; France, c. 1555-1560). For ruler pendants with blue backgrounds see a pendant of King Frances I...