Coin purse with pendants
Coin purse with pendants
Western Europe
The 19th century
Multicoloured gold; chasing, repousse, cutting
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Marks on the ring: two indistinct marks with numbers "75..." (late 19th-century French import marks in the form of owls (?)
Openwork multicolor gold purse of dodecagonal (twelve-sided) shape, with folding walls. Each trapezoidal "facet" of the base is decorated with a pierced repousse floral motif, enhanced at the lower part with a shell-shaped element; an eight-petalled floral rosette is in the base center. The folding walls are made of movable semicircular petals, each with a suspension ring, featuring a pierced floral motif and a shell. A chain with voluminous (three-dimensional) charms is threaded through all the rings.
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