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6 IMPRESSIVE FINE GEORGE IV DIAMOND MALTESE CROSS BROOCH ca. 1820/30, silver top, gold back, with openwork arms separated by fleurs-de-lys, with reduced collet-set old mine-cut diamonds, weighing approximately 10.18 carats in total, presented in the original fitted velvet- and satin-lined octagonal leather case. w. 2”, total weight 18.5 grams
7 RARE FINE GEORGIAN DIAMOND MALTESE CROSS BROOCH first quarter 19th century, silver top, closed gold back, set with a central old mine-cut diamond, ringed and radiating openwork arms set with a central old mine-cut diamond weighing approximately 0.88 carats and Peruzzi-cut diamonds weighing approximately 1.28 carats in total. w. 2”, total weight 18.0 grams
Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, July 12, 2002.
Provenance: Christie’s Important Jewels, New York, New York, December 4, 2001.
$12,000-$18,000
$7,000-$10,000
Two very similar diamond Maltese cross brooches were offered in the sale of the family collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Sotheby’s London, March 24, 2021; see lots 331 and 360.
For a pendant of similar date and design, see Shirley Bury, Jewelry: The International Era, v. I, 1789-1861 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club, 1997), p. 206, plate 103.
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