Georgian Floral Diamond Earrings

Georgian Floral Diamond EarringsAttractive Georgian earrings incorporating glistening rose cut diamonds into their floral foliate openworked design. They're beautifully made, crafted in silver with 15 carat gold ear wires, and the tops feature further diamonds in hybrid cud down scalloped settings. Made in England at the turn of the 19th century circa 1800 they exemplify the naturalistic intricacy achieved, seemingly effortlessly, by goldsmiths of the time. Era: Georgian, circa 1800

featuring colourful cloisonné enamelling over sterling silver

Head size: 8mm by 10

trends had shifted to iconography of the Christian faith

Louise-Marie was the wealthiest heiress in France prior to the Revolution)

the 18 carat gold mount features an overlapping double halo border with Etruscan-style applied ropework around the setting

tie it in a knot or bow

and it's mounted in a 19th century 18 carat gold ring mount

with blue 'sky' over a sharp mountainous 'desert'

Inner dimensions: 5

Of avian and zoomorphic designs

Italian textured cornicello pendant dating from the 1980s

but with a hint of greyish-green as it catches the light