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Sentimental Love Token Brooch
Wigs on the Green
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Sentimental Love Token Brooch

18th century
Description

This Georgian-era navette-shaped brooch houses a sepia painting of a classically draped lady in a wooded landscape with her dog. The absence of any mourning motifs suggests this is a sentimental love token with the dog symbolising unconditional love and protection.

The gold setting has a blue enamel surround studded with white and gold four-leaf clovers for luck. Under magnification there is minor paint loss to the outer edge between 3 and 4 o’clock; the brooch pin is likely a later addition.

Size: 37 x 24mm

Ivory Exemption Ref.: MY367SSK

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Wigs on the Green has dated this Georgian Enamel Miniature Brooch to the Georgian era.

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SA1214906
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This Georgian-era navette-shaped brooch houses a sepia painting of a classically draped lady in a wooded landscape with her dog.
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The absence of any mourning motifs suggests this is a sentimental love token with the dog symbolising unconditional love and protection.
Wigs on the Green
fig 1. An oval Georgian brooch featuring a hand-painted sepia miniature portrait enclosed within a royal blue vitreous enamel border with white floral accents.
fig 1. Sentimental Love Token Brooch

The gold setting has a blue enamel surround studded with white and gold four-leaf clovers for luck. Under magnification there is minor paint loss to the outer edge between 3 and 4 o’clock; the brooch pin is likely a later addition.

Size: 37 x 24mm

Ivory Exemption Ref.: MY367SSK

Date of Manufacture

Wigs on the Green has dated this Georgian Enamel Miniature Brooch to the Georgian era.

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SA1214906
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6372
Wigs on the Green
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An oval Georgian brooch featuring a hand-painted sepia miniature portrait enclosed within a royal blue vitreous enamel border with white floral accents.
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Archive I An oval Georgian brooch featuring a hand-painted sepia miniature portrait enclosed within a royal blue vitreous enamel border with white floral accents.

Sentimental Love Token Brooch

Archive II An oval Georgian brooch featuring a hand-painted sepia miniature portrait enclosed within a royal blue vitreous enamel border with white floral accents. View II
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An oval Georgian brooch featuring a hand-painted sepia miniature portrait enclosed within a royal blue vitreous enamel border with white floral accents.
Sentimental Love Token Brooch
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An oval Georgian brooch featuring a hand-painted sepia miniature portrait enclosed within a royal blue vitreous enamel border with white floral accents.
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A Georgian love token brooch is a piece of sentimental jewellery from the eighteenth or early nineteenth century, featuring a hand-painted miniature portrait or allegorical scene framed in precious metals and enamel.

These pieces typically utilised gold or silver mountings, vitreous enamel borders, and sepia or watercolour miniatures rendered on ivory, vellum, or paper beneath protective glass.

Authentic Georgian brooches display hand-painted brushwork visible under magnification, hand-cut glass covers, closed-back metal settings, and age-appropriate wear to the enamel or pin fittings.

These historical pieces can be pinned to coat lapels, velvet ribbons, or silk scarves, or alternatively mounted in a glass-fronted frame as miniature wall art.

Clean gently using a dry microfibre cloth, keeping the item away from liquids, solvents, and high humidity to prevent water ingress that could damage the delicate painted miniature.
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