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  An Eye For a Tooth

Pendant in gold, dating from around 1900. Design of two snowdrops with leaves and buds enamelled green and white and flowers composed of baby teeth mounted in silver set with brilliants.
Pendant in gold, dating from around 1900. Design of two snowdrops with leaves and buds enamelled green and white and flowers composed of baby teeth mounted in silver set with brilliants.

Perhaps the most intriguing piece of jewellery in the collection is a finely made but unsigned openwork pendant in gold, German or Austrian in style. It takes the form of a snowdrop plant hung with enamelled buds and flowers. It is only on close inspection that the pendant snowdrop flowers prove to be two tiny teeth. The pendant was probably made as a private commission for the craftsmans own family, possibly to console a child for the loss of its incisors.


 
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