Vintage Garnet Paste Enamel Egg Pendant and Silver Chain

This fabulous vintage egg pendant is beautifully decorated with twinkling white pastes, a cabochon garnet on the bottom and teardrop and leaf motifs, highlighted in bright red and green guilloche enamel.

Guilloche enamel dates to the 17th century and involves metal carefully worked by a lathe, or “Rose Machine” into a decorative pattern and overlaid with a colourful enamel to create a striking and highly detailed work of art.

It’s a beautiful design, similar to that of a Faberge egg and is modelled in gold metal and is accompanied by a sterling silver cable chain to display it on.

WEIGHT: Egg 9.7 grams – Chain 3.6 grams

MEASURES: Egg Height 20mm (30mm inc. loop) x Width 16mm x Depth 16mm – Chain Length 18 inches x Width 1.5mm

METAL: Base Metal/ Sterling Silver chain

STONES: Glass Paste, Garnet (3 x 3mm, approx. 0.10ct)

AGE: Circa 1950 - 1960

MARKS: Sterling Stamp on clasp