IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 37867 accession number: M.5A-D-2001 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gold, the brooch (A) set with garnets and pearls, and having in the back a glass-covered compartment enclosing hair; the earrings (B & C) set with a garnet (or ruby) and pearls; the shaped case (D) of maroon leather, with dark blue velvet and royal blue silk lining. The brooch has an oval medallion in the centre on which is an applied spray of paired leaves of graduated sizes set with seed pearls. At its base there is a gold bead, and at the top a lozenge set with a pearl. On the central stem are three spaced cut garnets (or rubies) in wavy edged rectangular settings. The medallion is surrounded by a three-lobed scrolled cartouche, on which, on each side lobe, is a spray of three leaves with six graduated beads at the top, and on the bottom lobe, a bead flanked by three graduated beads. Below there is a triangular 'bootlace' fringe and at the top, two ribbon scrolls topped by a bead. The oval, glass-covered compartment in the back encloses an untidy curl of mid-brown hair. The two earrings are of similar form but smaller, set with a single garnet (or ruby) with a pearl-set lozenge above and below, and with only two leaves on the sprays on each side. They have a triangular 'bootlace' fringe below, and a spool, shell, and bead attached to the suspension hook at the top. The case appears to be the original. title: brooch NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Gatwoods of Hitchin, 20 Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1DU LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37867 CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1865 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1865 culture: 19th Century, third quarter# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Nineteenth Century Jewellery Fitzwilliam Museum News, Spring/Summer 2002 ---