Necklace, ca. 1870, French, Paris, Gold, enamel and diamonds, L. 16-3/8 in. (41.6 cm.), Metalwork-Gold and Platinum, Eugêne Fontenay (French, 1823–1887), This gold chain has five oval enameled pendants depicting personifications of Europe and the Seasons. Each oval is framed in diamonds interspersed with long stylized palmette-shaped pendants, and forty-one leaf-shaped pendants, decorated with granulation and wirework suspended from alternately plain and coiled tubular links
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Necklace, ca, 1870, French, Paris, Gold, enamel, diamonds, L, 16-3/8, 41.6 cm, Metalwork-Gold, Platinum, Eugêne Fontenay, 1823–1887, gold, chain, five oval, enameled, pendants, depicting, personifications, Europe, Seasons, oval, framed, diamonds interspersed, long stylized, palmette-shaped, forty, leaf-shaped pendants, decorated, granulation, wirework suspended, alternately plain, coiled tubular, links
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