Bracelet clasp with miniature of Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) c.1817?
Gold, watercolour on ivory | 2.0 x 1.5 cm (sight) | RCIN 422242
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Hinged gold bracelet clasp, the band of six chain links, the lid engraved with Princess Charlotte's coronet and initials, containing a miniature of Princess Charlotte of Wales, head and shoulders, wearing a white dress with a pearl necklace and pendant brooch at her corsage, her hair dressed with pearls.
A head and shoulders copy after Charlotte Jones's miniature of 1813 in the Palais Royal, Brussels.Provenance
Given by Princess Charlotte to Lady Anne Culling Smith (?1759–1844), daughter of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and The Honourable Anne Hill, who married, in 1799, Charles Culling-Smith; thence to her granddaughter, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Lady-in-Waiting to Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge; bequeathed by her to Queen Mary, January 1915
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Medium and techniques
Gold, watercolour on ivory
Measurements
2.0 x 1.5 cm (sight)
2.1 x 1.7 cm (frame, external)
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