Stuart Crystal slide brooch picturing Cupid's arrow smithy 1680

Unknown artist

ConditionVery good
€ 18.800

Morgenster – Vaessen Juwelier

• About the artwork
  This type of jewel is called a Stuart crystal. Stuart crystals were mounted in all sort of jewelry, from pins, rings, slides, bracelets and more. Most of the Stuart crystals that survived over the ages are the slide variety, like this one. They became popular in England after 1649, with the execution of the then King of England, Charles I. His loyalists, (the royalists) who wanted to show their sympathy for their fallen monarch would wear small slides set with his portrait or a tress of hair and his initials (in fine gold wire) underneath a faceted crystal.
  
  Made in Engeland in 1680, weight 12.0 grams. Gold, silver, enemal.
• About the artist

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