Wednesday, December 18, 2013

PRE-GEORGIAN 1690S MEMENTO MORI ENAMELED SKELETON AND FACETED STUART CRYSTAL MOURNING SLIDE



An extremely fine example of a faceted Stuart Crystal memento mori slide with an enameled skeleton holding a staff in one hand and a tempus fugit (hourglass symbolizing "time flees") in the other.

The skeleton rests upon a bed of brunette hair and is flanked by two high karat gold cipher wire initials.

The sawtooth bezel slide case is 22 karat gold.

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