Unusual paste earrings with three curved lines of paste gemstones dripping from a central paste cluster. Paste earrings rose in popularity in 18th century France when improvements in domestic candlelight made the appeal of such glittering gemstones soar.Paste is a type of leaded glass which was first created in the 1600's, but only in the 1700's did it achieve a level of perfection, and it was in the Georgian era that the most beautiful paste jewelry was created...
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item #1180238
(stock #SR8150)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$580.00
$580.00
c. 1810. 6 1/4" x 8". Condition: excellent
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$2,440.00
$2,440.00
This romantic Georgian Natural Pearl Forget Me not Ring would have been given as a love ring back in its day. It evokes the forget-me-not with its 5 well matched pearls radiating about a central diamond. Besides the forget me not arrangement of the pearls, a coiled serpent curls around each side of the ring, the snake's head appearing at the bottom of the ring on one side and at the top of the ring on the other. A small diamond resides at the center of the pearls in a cut down collet setting...
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$1,850.00
$1,850.00
This wonderful 18K Scottish fob features an imposing tower, the symbol for the Mason family crest. The fob is carved with a motto which reads "Demeure Par La Verite" and translates to "Keep Fast By the Truth". Keep fast by the truth is rooted in the bible: from the Gospel of John, it means remain faithful to the word of God and one will be rewarded with a fruitful life. Our fob is 1.5" tall and just shy of 1.5" wide...
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item #1180774
(stock #SR405)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$560.00
$560.00
This Coalport porcelain dinner plate, pattern #835, is decorated with a maltese cross design in exquisite colors, circa 1815.
Condition: excellent Height: 9 inches
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
Regency Period, circa 1820 fob seal with a translucent image of an 18th century bearded man in a beret, perhaps robed. This swivel fob is 1 1/4 inches in width with a beauifully carved repousse jump ring that is just shy of 1 inch. This is really a two-fer- you get a beautiful swivel fob to hang as a pendant and the built in hand forged matching repousse jump ring allows you to hang it from your chain, along with additional pendants if you choose...
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$5,900.00
$5,900.00
Colorful depiction of a peasant girl graces this micromosaic brooch purchased during the Grand Tour and brought back to England to be set in an elaborate 18K bezel decorated with grapes and leaves. The glass tesserae are set in malachite.
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item #1180922
(stock #SR1436)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$500.00
$500.00
This is a famous Coalport Porcelain pattern, known as 'money tree'. The colors are bold, reflecting the attempt by the Coalport factory to compete with Chinese and Japanese porcelain imports and to cater to the English love for Oriental colors and patterns, during the Regency period.
Condition: excellent Height: 9.5 inches
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$1,400.00
$1,400.00
Bold Newhall floral porcelain oval dish with cobalt background. The dish measures 11" long by 8" wide. There are two available.
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item #1180362
(stock #SR8048)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$515.00
$515.00
c. 1810. 6" x 7 1/4" oval. Condition: excellent
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$1,435.00
$1,435.00
A lovely pair of white paste earrings closed back set in silver gilt. Approximately 18 MM or .7 inches in width, these well scaled earrings can be dressed up or down. Made of "paste", a special glass and lead formula originating from George Ravenscroft, a London glassmaker, during the 17th century and perfected by a French jeweler Georges Strass in the 18th century. Each "paste" was handcarved to fit the setting. Paste has become very collectible and desirable and can no longer be made today...
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$3,900.00
$3,900.00
With a Latin inscription translated as "Under a clear sky France suffers", this 18K Carnelian fob seal depicts an African slave in profile, carved atop a family crest, all shown above a ribbon banner reading "PURUM PATIENTIA FRANCE". Notwithstanding the word "France" in the inscription, our wax seal fob is English. The seal harkens back to the British abolitionist movement in France, during which time the British people actively sought to pressure the French to abolish slavery...
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item #1180381
(stock #SR8023)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$1,325.00
$1,325.00
C. 1810, 8" x 12 1/2" x 4 1/2"H Condition: excellent
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$4,800.00
$4,800.00
Dramatic Georgian faceted paste single stone ring set in silver and backed in 18K. The ring is nicely engraved at the shoulders with an 18K band. The carved paste is set in silver, which was believed to be better suited to set off the cool tones of the "diamond" stone...
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item #1347742
(stock #SR4615)
Exquisite Berlin Iron cameo necklace consisting of sixteen graduated portrait cameos of classical men and women. This unusual necklace has its original clasp and measures 15 1/4" long by 1 3/8" at its widest.
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$6,900.00
$6,900.00
Utilizing the natural features of the blush and gray speckled agate with a lovely mottled appearance and demonstrating the fine carving that this circle of Italian carvers were known for, our ring is a sensitive portrayal of Sappho, an early poetess who came of age in the time of the Ancient Greeks in the Archaic period. The quality of the carving is reminiscent of the circle of carvers in Rome during the mid eighteenth century which included Anton Pichler and his sons Giovanni and Luigi...
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item #1180765
(stock #SR430)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$450.00
$450.00
This Ridgeway porcelain shell shaped dessert dish is painted in beautiful colors, c. 1825.
Condition: excellent Height: 8 inches Width: 8 inches
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item #1180401
(stock #SR8009)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room
$825.00
$825.00
This impressively hand painted pattern was the one chosen by Lord Nelson for his dinner service, 7 1/4" DIAM. Condition: excellent