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A pair of Romantic earrings

Estimate €2.900–3.900

Description

Repoussé gold decorated with scrolls and set with four oval-cut amethysts.

Detachable pendants allowing wear short or long.

Possibly Portuguese, third quarter of the nineteenth century.

(slight signs of wear, in very good condition)

L.: 6 cm

17.2 g

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