Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A six row cultured pearl collar necklace with diamond clasp, the clasp set with an early 20th century diamond rectangular panel of cushion-cuts, old-cuts and rose-cut diamonds, millegrain edged, the panel applied to a later framework, claw mounted, between six slightly graduating rows of uniform cultured pearls spaced with four diamond set vertical bars, dimensions of clasp 2.9mm x 2.6mm, length approximately 34cm. £2500-3500

Provenance: From the family of the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (1859-1925), Viceroy of India 1899-1905, and thence by descent.