Description:
Round gold locket featuring a double lovers' knot arrangement of hair in two colors on both sides. Each hair arrangement is displayed under the crystal, which is painted on the reverse with a black, off-center mat. One of the mats and gilded lower border. The front of the locket has two different colored locks of hair (brunette and blond) intertwined in an endless knot, surrounded by a black painted border on the glass. The back has two different locks of hair (brunette and brunette with white), without a painted border. On both sides, the black and white eglomise suggests this commemorates mourning. To make this item of jewelry, the jeweler would have taken the hair and possibly combed it out with gum Arabic to align the hair and make straight. Then he would have tied the hair and set it into place. Both knots of hair are mounted onto a plain-woven dark blue (silk?) fabric.
Tags:
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