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18th century ROSETTES (ROSAS), Table cut Pink Topaz & drilled strung Pearls

PINKED TOPAZ & NATURAL PEARLS ROSETTES (Rosas)

18th Century, with later 14k ear screw backs

Diameter : 1-1/4”each

Gross weight, the pair : .2875 troy oz

Ear Screws : early 1900's, each marked “14-kt”

18th century“Pinked Topaz” : 2, each table cut, set in high conical rose gold collet, foil-backed in the 18th century manner. Square tables visible measure 3.5mm each, in rose gold cone, 7.4mm
(incompletely measureable and untestable as mounted, typically pale pink enhanced by pink-red foil backing)

Natural Pearls : approximately 400 full-drilled wire-strung 1.5 to 2 mm pearls, plus 12 baroque 3.5 mm pearls on gold posts.
Some losses, as typical of type and age. All or most pearls appear to be of natural origin.

# 97037 ng-1............................................................pair, $ 2,400.

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Matilda Stoughton de Jadenes di Nabot wearing rosettes (rosas) in her hair

Matilda Stoughton de Jadenes di Nabot wearing rosettes (rosas) in her hair

(detail from the 1794 portrait by Gilbert Stuart)

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detail of rosettes from the 1794 portrait

detail of rosettes from the 1794 portrait

Rosettes here are pinned in the hair; they were sometimes used as twinkling accents on various parts of the dress as well

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Back shows evidence how, over several hundred years, these were preserved & eventually converted to earrings

Back shows evidence how, over several hundred years, these were preserved & eventually converted to earrings

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