ID 1122308
Lot 382 | A GROUP OF FOUR AMERICAN GOLD MOURNING ITEMS
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a bracelet, the oval clasp with braided hair behind a rock crystal window surrounded by a border of pearls, the reverse engraved Leverett Saltonstall / Born June 13 1783 / Died May 8th 1845, on a later flat-hinged band, a lozenge-form brooch with a rock crystal window revealing a cenotaph in white enamel with the phrase IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER against braided hair, the reverse engraved Charles Hall / died Nov 9th / 1783 / Aged 38, a keychain formed as an oval with a braid of hair behind a rock crystal window in a surround of black stones, engraved on the reverse JH / Sep 25 1818 / Sept 11 1819, and a pair of lozenge-form cuff links with braided hair behind rock crystal windows, the reverses of one of each pair engraved CR died 17 Oct 1797, all apparently unmarked
1 5⁄8 in. long, the brooch
Provenance
In honor of Leverett Saltonstall I (1783-1845) (the bracelet).
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long term loan, 2009-2022.
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Medium: | Gold |
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