Spotlight On: Early 19th Century Red Enamel Sentimental Pendant
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For a collector of the memorial and sentimental, it’s quite common to find white, black and blue enamels, but when you find a contrasting colour, you have to take notice.
With this very early 19th century pendant, the gorgeous red guilloche enamel surrounds the hair memento and is generously surrounded with paste. In this case, the sentiment is purely love, red meaning passion. If you were to look at the hair inside, notice the elegant ribbon bow entwining the simple palette worked hair, almost as if it had been cropped off the head of the lover and simply placed inside (while obviously there’s a bit more work involved than that).
Due to the use of this for its sentiment and the tight weave of the woven hair in the back, this piece matches closely with other French pieces of the time, so it wouldn’t be difficult to make this assumption.
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