A late 19th century gem-set pendant


The pendant, probably Austro-Hungarian, designed as an openwork cartouche depicting a hunter with dog and stag beneath an apple tree, decorated in polychrome enamel, the surround set with circular-cut rubies and cushion-shaped diamonds, the scroll and acanthus detailing with white enamel highlights, suspending three pearl drops, the whole suspended from three similarly-set chains, beneath an unassociated brooch, circa 1870, set with a garnet cabochon within a green guilloché enamel frame, with pearl and rose-cut diamond highlights, mounted in silver and gold, pearls untested, composite, later brooch fitting, length 10.2cm