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A citrine and green enamel pendant necklace by Louis Osman, 1976, the pendant set with an oval-cut golden citrine within a gold wrap-around setting of overlapping apple green enamelled shamrock leaves, and applied with vari-cut citrines, the whole suspended from a ropetwist hoop, the long chain of conforming design, incorporating figure-of eight links behind the shamrock links, unmarked, pendant length 5.5cm, chain length 60cm. £20,000-£30,000
Exhibited:
Explosion, Talent today: The 650th birthday of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths 1327-1977, exhibition held December 1977, Exhibit no. 216.
A copy of this exhibition catalogue is included with this lot.
Photographs of paperwork associated with the 1977 Exhibition list the original owner of the necklace as:
Mrs Audrey Congreve of
Westering, Yeomans Lane, Newtown, Newbury, Berkshire.
According to a PMI test on the XRF Analyzer, the pendant is testing between 18 and 19ct gold, the necklace as 18ct gold.
Please note Artist’s Resale Rights will apply to this lot.
Some small areas of enamel loss, but overall in good condition.
Pendant weight 66gm, chaiin weight approximately 59gm.
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